NGC 79

{{short description|Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}

{{Infobox galaxy

| name = NGC 79

| image = 250px

| caption = SDSS image of NGC 79

| epoch = J2000

| constellation name = Andromeda

| ra = {{RA|00|21|02.838}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1086/498708 |last1=Skrutskie |first1=Michael F. |last2=Cutri |first2=Roc M. |last3=Stiening |first3=Rae |last4=Weinberg |first4=Martin D. |last5=Schneider |first5=Stephen E. |last6=Carpenter |first6=John M. |last7=Beichman |first7=Charles A. |last8=Capps |first8=Richard W. |last9=Chester |first9=Thomas |last10=Elias |first10=Jonathan H. |last11=Huchra |first11=John P. |last12=Liebert |first12=James W. |last13=Lonsdale |first13=Carol J. |last14=Monet |first14=David G. |last15=Price |first15=Stephan |last16=Seitzer |first16=Patrick |last17=Jarrett |first17=Thomas H. |last18=Kirkpatrick |first18=J. Davy |last19=Gizis |first19=John E. |last20=Howard |first20=Elizabeth V. |last21=Evans |first21=Tracey E. |last22=Fowler |first22=John W. |last23=Fullmer |first23=Linda |last24=Hurt |first24=Robert L. |last25=Light |first25=Robert M. |last26=Kopan |first26=Eugene L. |last27=Marsh |first27=Kenneth A. |last28=McCallon |first28=Howard L. |last29=Tam |first29=Robert |last30=Van Dyk |first30=Schuyler D. |last31=Wheelock |first31=Sherry L. |title=The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) |journal=The Astronomical Journal |date=1 February 2006 |volume=131 |issue=2 |pages=1163–1183 |bibcode=2006AJ....131.1163S |s2cid=18913331 |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract |issn=0004-6256 |doi-access=free }}

| dec = {{DEC|+22|33|59.06}}

| h_radial_v = 5444 km/s

| z = 0.018326

| dist_ly = {{cvt|83.56|±|0.23|Mpc|Mly|lk=on|order=flip}}{{cite journal|title=Cosmicflows-2: The Data|author1=Tully, R. Brent|display-authors=etal|journal=The Astronomical Journal|volume=146|issue=4|date=2013|page=86 |bibcode=2013AJ....146...86T|doi=10.1088/0004-6256/146/4/86|arxiv=1307.7213|s2cid=118494842 }}

| group_cluster =

| type = cE{{cite web|url=http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%2079|title=Search specification: NGC 79|work=HyperLeda|publisher=Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1|accessdate=2021-02-04}}

| size =

| appmag_v =

| appmag_b = 15.16

| absmag_v =

| size_v =

| notes =

| names = {{odlist|UGC=|MCG=+04-02-003|PGC=1340}}{{cite simbad|title=NGC 79|accessdate=2021-02-04}}

}}

NGC 79 is an elliptical galaxy estimated to be about 270 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. NGC 79 is its New General Catalogue designation. Its apparent magnitude is 14.9. It was discovered on 14 November 1884 by Guillaume Bigourdan.{{cite web|last1=Seligman|first1=Courtney|title=Celestial Atlas NGC Objects: NGC 79|url=http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc0a.htm#79|website=Celestial Atlas|access-date=3 March 2015}}

File:NGC 0079 2MASS.jpg)]]