Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.01184486102048638
- Coordinates
- RA 9.2455° · Dec -29.4779°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 36 58.9
- Declination
- −29 ° 28 ′ 40 ″
- Distance
- 159 Mly
- Type
- SB0/a?(rs)
- Apparent size v
- 1.4' × 0.6'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Image
- NGC 0174 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- APMBGC 411+134-017
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-27
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.012
- right ascension
- 9.2455208
- declination
- -29.4778722
- radial velocity
- 3469
- apparent magnitude
- 9.662
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- SB
- Commons category
- NGC 174
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 174 is a barred spiral or lenticular galaxy around 159 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on 27 September 1834 by astronomer John Herschel.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 174” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.