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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 18 38.98029
- Declination
- −15 ° 19 ′ 20.6128 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7631 km/s
- Distance
- 289.4 Mly (88.72 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 85.93
- Image
- NGC 0073 2MASS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 4.66241785664880
- declination
- -15.32239243147010
- Commons category
- NGC 73
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2416781537729189120
- redshift
- 0.025891
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-10-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.895
- radial velocity
- 7631
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 73 is an intermediate spiral galaxy estimated to be about 350 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift from the USA in 1886 and its apparent magnitude is 13.7.
Image from 2MASS
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 73” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.