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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.

Vinony links it to 30 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
G
Redshift
z = 0.02474292025442071
Coordinates
RA 357.2278° · Dec -16.5411°
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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:

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
galaxy
Constellation
Aquarius
Image
NGC 7759 PanS.jpg
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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

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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.

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