NGC 767

Short description: Galaxy located in the constellation Cetus

NGC 767

SDSS image of NGC 767

Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation| Cetus
Right ascension|  01h 58m 50.822s
Declination| −09° 35′ 13.61″
Redshift| 0.01805[1]
Helio radial velocity| 5362 km/s[1]
Distance| 246.5 ± 17.3 Mly (75.58 ± 5.3 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)| 14[1]
Characteristics
Type| SBb pec?[2]
Other designations
PGC 7483[1]

NGC 767 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 241 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.[3][4][5]

## See also

* List of NGC objects (1–1000)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "NGC 767". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+767.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Results for object NGC 0767 (NGC 767)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC 767&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
3. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+767&img_stamp=YES.
4. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 767". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC767.
5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 767 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=807.

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