NGC 68

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Andromeda}}

{{Infobox galaxy

|name = NGC 68

|image = N70s-crop.jpg

|caption = NGC 68 is the elliptical galaxy located directly to the left of spiral galaxy NGC 70. Also in this photo is NGC 71 located directly above NGC 70 and NGC 68.

|constellation name = Andromeda

|epoch = J2000

|ra = {{RA|00|18|18.5}}

|dec = {{DEC|30|04|18}}

|z = 0.01913{{cite web|title=NED search results for NGC 68|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+68&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES|publisher=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database|access-date=14 May 2014}}

|h_radial_v = 5735

|dist_ly = 260,000,000{{cite web|last=Wright|first=Ned|title=Ned Wright's cosmology calculator|url=http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html|publisher=UCLA|access-date=14 May 2014}}

|group_cluster = NGC 68 group

|type = E1

|size = 90,000 light years{{cite web|last=Courtney|first=Seligman|title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 50 - 99|url=http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc0a.htm#68|work=cselingman.com|access-date=14 May 2014}}

|size_v = 1.288' x 1.202'

|appmag_v = 12.9{{cite web|title=NGC 68 > Deep Sky Objects Browser|url=http://dso-browser.com/dso/info/NGC/68|work=DSO browser|access-date=14 May 2014|archive-date=3 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403142341/http://dso-browser.com/dso/info/NGC/68|url-status=dead}}

|names = UGC 00170 VV 166b CGCG 499-106 CGCG 0015.7+2948 MCG +05-01-065 2MASX J00181851+3004185 WBL 007-008 USGC U012 NED07 HOLM 006A MAPS-PP O_1257_0202235C PGC 001187 SRGb 062.052 UZC J001818.4+300418

}}

NGC 68 is a lenticular galaxy,[http://www.kopernik.org/images/archive/n68.htm NGC 67, 67A, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, and 72A The Arp 113 / VV-166 Galaxy Cluster] and the central member of the NGC 68 group, in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered on September 11, 1784, by William Herschel, who observed the NGC 68 group as a single object and described it as "extremely faint, large, 3 or 4 stars plus nebulosity". As such, his reported location is between NGC 68, NGC 70, and NGC 71. By the time Dreyer looked at the galaxies to add to the NGC catalog, however, he was able to tell that the single galaxy observed by Herschel was in fact 3 adjacent galaxies, and cataloged them as NGC 68, NGC 70, and NGC 71.