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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
G
Redshift
z = 0.027446
Morphology
E-SO
Coordinates
RA 30.6222° · Dec 18.3730°
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Key facts

Constellation
Aries
Right ascension
02 03 54
Declination
+18 ° 29 ′ 50 ″

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Aries
Image
NGC 0794 SDSS.jpg
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time of discovery or invention
1784-10-15
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
catalog code
LEDA 7763
redshift
0.027446
galaxy morphological type
E/S0
apparent magnitude
9.521
Commons category
NGC 794
right ascension
30.6221458
declination
18.3729639
radial velocity
8115
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 794 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aries about 383 million light-years away from the Milky Way. It was discovered on October 15, 1784 by the astronomer William Herschel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 794” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.