Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 51 03.848
- Declination
- −09 ° 42 ′ 09.32 ″
- Redshift
- 0.006 11 ± 0.000 02
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1 831 .13 ± 5.10
- Distance
- 85.6 Mly (26.25 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 681 Group
- Type
- SBcd
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 19
- Image
- NGC 701 imaged by Legacy Surveys.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1899
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-01-10
- redshift
- 0.006101
- galaxy morphological type
- SBcd
- apparent magnitude
- 11.947
- right ascension
- 27.7660333
- catalog code
- LEDA 6826
- declination
- -9.7025889
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- NGC 701
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Article
NGC 701 is a spiral galaxy with a high star formation rate in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 86 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 65,000 light years. The object was discovered on January 10, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
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