Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Distance
- 2,653 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.04082361661640377
- Coordinates
- RA 28.3698° · Dec -16.9958°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 53 28.755118
- Declination
- −16 ° 59 ′ 44.8274 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11989 km/s
- Distance
- 540 Mly (166 Mpc )
- Type
- SB0-a
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0734 SDSS2.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-11-09
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5141793868764785664
- apparent magnitude
- 11.622
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0-a
- Commons category
- NGC 734
- right ascension
- 28.36981175962980
- declination
- -16.99578626499400
- radial velocity
- 11963
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 734 is a lenticular galaxy with a central bar in the constellation Cetus, which is about 538 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered on November 9, 1885, by the American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth.
NGC 734 was identified as PGC 170023, but is often misidentified as PGC 7121. SIMBAD also shows the position of NGC 734 as PGC 7121.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 734” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.