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Vinony's link graph records 447 inbound references to NGC 7759, and connects out to list of stars in Aquarius, epoch and list of NGC objects (7001–7840).
It sits within the topics Aquarius (constellation), Lenticular galaxies and NGC objects.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Redshift
- z = 0.02474292025442071
- Coordinates
- RA 357.2278° · Dec -16.5411°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Right ascension
- 23 48 54.712
- Declination
- −16 ° 32 ′ 28.26 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7326 km/s
- Distance
- 336.3 ± 23.6 Mly (103.10 ± 7.24 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB0 pec:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-11-28
- catalog code
- LEDA 72496
- apparent magnitude
- 9.601
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- right ascension
- 357.2279667
- declination
- -16.5411833
- radial velocity
- 7326
- redshift
- 0.024437
- epoch
- J2000.0
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7759 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. It is located about 340 million light-years (100 megaparsecs) away from the Sun. It was discovered independently by American astronomers Lewis A. Swift and Francis Preserved Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7759” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.