Key facts
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Right ascension
- 04 59 57.736
- Declination
- −26 ° 01 ′ 18.91 ″
- Redshift
- 0.002472 ± 0.000002
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 741 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 32.6 ± 5.3 Mly (10.0 ± 1.6 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)d
- Size
- ~77,000 ly (23.5 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 8.1 ′ × 4.4 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Distance from Earth
- 9
- Image
- NGC 1744 GALEX WikiSky.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SBd
- Commons category
- NGC 1744
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2959227076762704000
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-11-20
- redshift
- 0.002495
- apparent magnitude
- 9.776
- right ascension
- 74.99057686357170
- declination
- -26.02218024341240
- radial velocity
- 750
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.079
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.158
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 1744 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lepus. The galaxy lies about 30 million light years away from Earth based on redshift independent methods, which means, given its apparent dimensions, that NGC 1744 is approximately 75,000 light years across. It was discovered by John Herschel on November 20, 1835.
Characteristics
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