NGC 709

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

{{Infobox Galaxy

| name = NGC 709

| image = 250px

| caption = Pan-STARRS image of NGC 709

| constellation name = Andromeda

| epoch = J2000

| type = S0{{cite web

| title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

| work=Results for NGC 709

| url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/

| access-date=2018-12-26}}

| ra = {{RA|01|52|50.6}}

| dec = {{DEC|36|13|24}}

| dist_ly = {{convert|45|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}}

| z = 0.011928

| h_radial_v = 3576 km/s

| group_cluster = Abell 262

| appmag_v = 15.23

| size_v = 0.6 x 0.3

| size = ~{{convert|14|kpc|ly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}} (estimated)

| names = PGC 006969

}}

NGC 709 is a lenticular galaxy located 150 million light-years away{{Cite web|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+0709&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|title=Your NED Search Results|website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu|access-date=2018-12-27}} in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by the Irish engineer and astronomer Bindon Blood Stoney on October 28, 1850{{Cite web|url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc7.htm#710|title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 700 - 749|website=cseligman.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-21}} and is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 262.{{Cite web|url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+++709&NbIdent=query_hlinks&Coord=01+52+50.6349730817%2B36+13+24.240132774&parents=3&submit=parents&siblings=127&hlinksdisplay=h_all|title=NGC 709|website=sim-id|access-date=2018-12-27}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyWjVWYWoO8C&pg=PA309|title=Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters: From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue|last=Steinicke|first=Wolfgang|date=2010-08-19|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49010-8|page=309}}{{Cite journal|last=Scodeggio|first=Marco|last2=Boselli|first2=Alessandro|last3=Gavazzi|first3=Giuseppe|last4=Trinchieri|first4=Ginevra|last5=Garilli|first5=Bianca|date=1992-08-01|title=Multifrequency windows on spiral galaxies. II - The A262 and Cancer clusters|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series|volume=94|pages=299–326|issn=0365-0138|bibcode=1992A&AS...94..299S}}{{Cite journal|last=Butcher|first=H. R.|last2=Oemler|first2=A. Jr.|date=1985-04-01|title=The evolution of galaxies in clusters. IV - Photometry of 10 low-redshift clusters|journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series|volume=57|pages=665–691|doi=10.1086/191022|issn=0067-0049|bibcode=1985ApJS...57..665B}}{{Cite journal|last=Fanti|first=C.|last2=Fanti|first2=R.|last3=Feretti|first3=L.|last4=Ficarra|first4=A.|last5=Gioia|first5=I. M.|last6=Giovannini|first6=G.|last7=Gregorini|first7=L.|last8=Mantovani|first8=F.|last9=Marano|first9=B.|date=1982-01-01|title=Radio and optical observations of 9 nearby Abell clusters - A262, A347, A569, A576, A779, A1213, A1228, A2162, A2666|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=105|pages=200–218|issn=0004-6361|bibcode=1982A&A...105..200F}}{{Cite journal|last=Moss|first=C.|last2=Dickens|first2=R. J.|date=1977-03-01|title=Redshifts of galaxies in the cluster Abell 262, and in the region of the Pisces group /centred on NGC 383/|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=178|issue=4|pages=701–715|doi=10.1093/mnras/178.4.701|issn=0035-8711|bibcode=1977MNRAS.178..701M|doi-access=free}}