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
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.
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