Q515295

Also known as New General Catalogue 70

spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

Key facts

Constellation: Andromeda
Right ascension: 00 18 22.55
Declination: +30 04 43.4
Heliocentric radial velocity: 7167 km/s
Distance: 320-325 Mly
Type: Sb Sbc SA(rs)c
Size: ~200,000 ly (60.48 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v: ~1.7'x1.4'

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Wikidata facts

Distance from Earth: 96.86
Image: N70s-crop.jpg

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redshift: 0.023890
Commons category: NGC 70
catalog code: SDSS J001822.57+300446.3
galaxy morphological type: Sb
time of discovery or invention: 1855-10-07
apparent magnitude: 9.665
right ascension: 4.594050
declination: 30.0795417
radial velocity: 7141

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NGC 70 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on October 7, 1855, by R. J. Mitchell and was observed on December 19, 1897, by Guillaume Bigourdan from France who described it as "extremely faint, very small, round, between 2 faint stars".

NGC 70 hosts a Seyfert Type II Active galactic nucleus (AGN).