NGC 67 is an
elliptical galaxy
An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. They are one of the four main classes of galaxy described by Edwin Hubble in his Hubble sequence and 1936 work ''The R ...
located in the constellation
Andromeda that was discovered on October 7, 1855, by
R. J. Mitchell, who described it as "extremely faint, very small, round". The galaxy belongs to the
NGC 68 group, which also contains the galaxies
NGC 68,
NGC 69
NGC 69 is a barred lenticular galaxy
A lenticular galaxy (denoted S0) is a type of galaxy intermediate between an elliptical (denoted E) and a spiral galaxy in galaxy morphological classification schemes. It contains a large-scale disc but ...
,
NGC 70
NGC 70 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on October 7, 1855 by R. J. Mitchell and was also observed on December 19, 1897 by Guillaume Bigourdan from France who described it as "extremely faint, very sm ...
,
NGC 71,
NGC 72, and possibly
NGC 74
NGC 74 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation. It was discovered on 7 October 1855 by Irish astronomer William Parsons.
See also
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* List of NGC objects
The following is a list of NGC objects, that is objects listed i ...
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Target galaxy controversy
Mitchell's position locates the observed galaxy between an E3 elliptical and an E5 elliptical on the edge of the galaxy group, and each elliptical has been interpreted as the original and secondary.
Wikisky
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lists the round galaxy as the primary and the elongated as PGC 138159,
the Deep-Sky Objects browser lists the elongated as NGC 67,
lists the same galaxy as both NGC 67 and NGC 67a.
Courtney Seligman's NGC object database argues, however, that since the location offset of NGC 67 is similar to that of the other galaxies in the group, that the elongated galaxy is likely the observed object, and that the rounder NGC 67a was listed as a star by Mitchell.
References
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