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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.01443331839922404
Morphology
SO-a
Coordinates
RA 28.3735° · Dec 36.2213°
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Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
01 53 29.6
Declination
36 ° 13 ′ 17 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4418 km/s
Distance
190 Mly (57 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Abell 262
Type
S0/a
Size
~110,000 ly (33 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.5 x 0.4

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Distance from Earth
60.49
Image
NGC 0714 DSS.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
S0-a
Commons category
NGC 714
redshift
0.014767
catalog code
LEDA 7009
time of discovery or invention
1850-10-28
discoverer or inventor
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
apparent magnitude
9.613
right ascension
28.3735500
declination
36.2213333
radial velocity
4689
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 714 is a lenticular galaxy located 190 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Bindon Blood Stoney on October 28, 1850 and is a member of Abell 262.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 714” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.