Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Redshift
- z = 0.034988
- Coordinates
- RA 28.1479° · Dec -16.5178°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 52 35.49
- Declination
- −16 ° 31 ′ 04.1 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10387 ± 7 km/s
- Distance
- 450 M ly
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.7 x 0.6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- NGC 0725 SDSS.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-11-09
- catalog code
- LEDA 6950
- redshift
- 0.034988
- apparent magnitude
- 11.263
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- Commons category
- NGC 725
- right ascension
- 28.1478708
- declination
- -16.5178167
- radial velocity
- 10306
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Article
NGC 725 is a spiral galaxy approximately 450 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Francis Preserved Leavenworth on November 9, 1885 with the 26" refractor at the Leander McCormick Observatory.
NGC 725 (SDSS)
Available in 31 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Burmese
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0
Connections
list of NGC objects (1–1000)
Entity
epoch
Entity
NGC 241
Entity
NGC 945
Entity
star
Entity
galaxy
Entity
light-year
Entity
constellation
Entity
nebula
Entity
Andromeda Galaxy
Entity
exoplanet
Entity
redshift
Entity
Cetus
Entity
star cluster
Entity
apparent magnitude
Entity
right ascension
Entity
Triangulum Galaxy
Entity
declination
Entity
spiral galaxy
Entity
Messier object
Entity