Key facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Right ascension
- 22 30 34
- Declination
- −17 ° 34 ′ 24 ″
- Distance
- 308 Mly
- Type
- SB(s)ab pec
- Apparent size v
- 1' x 30
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Distance from Earth
- 102.01
- Image
- NGC 7301.jpg
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- declination
- -17.57382224151120
- apparent magnitude
- 10.678
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- redshift
- 0.024477
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2594553567004493952
- right ascension
- 337.64461218875740
- radial velocity
- 7237
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7301
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7301 is a barred spiral galaxy located around 308,000,000 light-years (94,000,000 pc) away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth In 1886.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7301” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.