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NGC 75
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 19 26.356
- Declination
- +06 ° 26 ′ 57.33 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5722 km/s
- Distance
- 261.9 ± 18.4 Mly (80.31 ± 5.65 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC75 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 75
- catalog code
- [HDL96] 408 86
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- redshift
- 0.019273
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-10-22
- apparent magnitude
- 10.113
- right ascension
- 4.8598167
- declination
- 6.4492583
- radial velocity
- 5722
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 75 is a lenticular galaxy estimated to be about 260 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift from the USA in 1886 and its magnitude is 13.2.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 75” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.