Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 52 16.8
- Declination
- 36 ° 02 ′ 12 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4576 km/s
- Distance
- 200 Mly (60 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- S0?
- Size
- ~55,000 ly (17 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 x 0.7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0700 DSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 4596
- catalog code
- LEDA 6924
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-10-28
- redshift
- 0.014727
- apparent magnitude
- 11.229
- Commons category
- NGC 700
- right ascension
- 28.0529167
- declination
- 36.0972944
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 700 is a lenticular galaxy located 200 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. NGC 700 was discovered by astronomer Bindon Stoney on October 28, 1850. It is also a member of Abell 262.
The galaxy PGC 6924 is often misidentified as NGC 700.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 700” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.