Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 54 56.208
- Declination
- −09 ° 00 ′ 38.90 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3875 km/s
- Distance
- 172 Mly (52.7 Mpc )
- Type
- E, cD:
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0731 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-01-10
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- LEDA 7118
- apparent magnitude
- 11.482
- redshift
- 0.013046
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- -3
- Commons category
- NGC 731
- right ascension
- 28.7343375
- declination
- -9.0108806
- radial velocity
- 3911
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 731 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus about 172 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It was discovered by William Herschel on January 10, 1785. It has a luminosity of 3.9×10 L☉.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 731” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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