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| Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Image Information for NGC 1068 | |||
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| DSS Acknowledgement , DSS Copyright Notice | DSS Image Generation: 1st Generation DSS Image | ||
| Image Center (2000): 02h 42m 40.7s; -00º 00' 47" | Image File Name: n1068.jpg | ||
| Image Size (arcminutes): 10' x 10' | Image Size (pixels): 353 x 353 | ||
| Original NGC Catalogue Data for NGC 1068 | |||
| General Catalogue Designation: 600 | William Herschel Designation: ... | ||
| John Herschel Designation: 262 | Other Observers: Méchain, M 77 | ||
| Right Ascension (Equinox 1860): 02h 35m 31s | Annual RA Precession (Equinox 1880): +3.07s | ||
| North Polar Declination (Equinox 1860): 90° 36.7' | Annual DEC Precession (Equinox 1880): -15.6" | ||
| Summary Description: vB, pL, iR, sbMrrN | |||
| Notes: † | Comments: … | ||
| Discovered by: Pierre Francois Andre Mechain (1744 - 1804) | Year of Discovery: 1780 | ||
| Telescope Aperture (Inches): 3 | Telescope Type: Refractor | ||
| Understanding the 'Summary Description': Summary Description Abbreviations List | |||
| Contemporary/Current Data for NGC 1068 | |||
| Right Ascension (2000): 02h 42m 40.7s | Declination (2000): -00º 00' 47" | ||
| Object Type: Galaxy | Object Classification: Sb | ||
| Constellation: Cetus | Position Angle: 70 ° | ||
| Visual Magnitude: 9.1 | Surface Brightness: 13.0 | ||
| Blue Magnitude: 9.7 | Object Size: 7.1'X6.0' | ||
| Also Cataloged As: | M77, UGC 2188, MCG+00-07-083, ARP 37, h 262, GC 600, CGCG 388.098, 3C 71, PGC 10266 | ||
| Catalogue Notes: Seyfert galaxy, brightest in group. | |||
| Book / Chart References for NGC 1068 | |||
| Luginbuhl & Skiff (Page): 76 | Burnham's (Volume : Page): 1:644 | ||
| Uranometria 2000: 220 | Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas: C-55 | ||
| Microsky: 591 | GSC Small Region Number: 47 | ||
| POSS Blue Plate #: 1283 | POSS Red Plate #: 1283 | ||
| Database Update Level: 2 (Complete) | |||
| Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1068 | |||
NGC 1068 = M77 = U02188 = MCG +00-07-083 = Arp 37 = Cetus A = PGC 10266 02 42 40.3 -00 00 48 V = 8.9; Size 7.1x6.0; SB = 12.8; PA = 70d 17.5": very bright, moderately large, sharp concentration with an unusually bright core, almost stellar nucleus, diffuse slightly elongated halo. Appears mottled at high power and a hint of inner arm structure. A mag 11 star is 1.3' ESE of the center. This is a Seyfert galaxy and brightest in a group. 8": intense core, faint halo. | |||
| Data Sources Used to research NGC 1068 | |||
| [NGC] New General Catalogue / [IC] Index Catalogue (Dreyer - 1888, 1895, 1908) [OHCDSO] Observing Handbook and Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (Luginbuhl & Skiff - 1990) [RE-NGCDDB] NGC Discoverer's Database (Erdmann 1990 - 2006) [UGC] Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies (Nilson - 1973) [NGCT] The Nearby Galaxies Catalog (Tully) [ARP] Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (H. Arp) [CGCG] Catalog of Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies (Zwicky - 1968) [HC-PPL] NGC/IC Accurate Positions List Database (Corwin - 1996 thru 2006) [SG-NGCO] NGC/IC Observations Database (Gottlieb - 1998 thru 2006) [RE-AZDB] The Arizona Database®, V15.5 (Erdmann - 1987 thru 2006) [DSS] Digitized Sky Survey - 1st (102 CD-ROM) and 2nd (Web Site) Generation (STScI - 1994) [NED] NASA's Extragalactic Database (NED) located at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | |||
| Additional Notes | |||
| • 1st generation images were generated from the 102 CD-ROM version of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) • 2nd generation images were generated at the DSS web site located at http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dsswin • Luginbuhl & Skiff page numbers are from 'Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects' by Christian B. Luginbuhl and Brian A. Skiff, produced by Cambridge University Press • Burnham's refers to 'Burnham's Celestial Handbook' in three volumes produced by Dover Publications, Inc. • Uranometria 2000 chart numbers are for those printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Lovi, and are not for the most recent printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Remaklus in which the charts were re-numbered, all of which were and/or are produced by Willmann-Bell, Inc. • The Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas is by D. Herald and P. Bobroff of Canberra, Australia and is produced by HB2000 Publications • Microsky® is the microfiche rendition of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) produced by Deen Publications (P.O. Box 867088; Plano Texas 75086) • POSS refers to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey produced by The National Geographic Society in conjunction with The California Institute of Technology • All DSS image annotation was performed by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr., and is ©Copyright 1996 through 2008 by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. - All rights reserved • All product names, trademarks, and copyrights are the property of their respective owners • Contemporary/Current Data for this object was hand collected and entered from the data sources listed in the "Data Sources Used" section of this table above.- Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. | |||
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