Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 21 29 38.8
- Declination
- 06 ° 40 ′ 57 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3,476 km/s
- Distance
- 140 Mly (42.9 Mpc )
- Type
- S?
- Size
- ~54,300 ly (16.64 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 x 0.4
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7074 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy located about 140 million light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. NGC 7074 was discovered by astronomer Albert Marth on October 16, 1863.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7074” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.