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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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Image
- NGC 7074.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 66850
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1863-10-16
- apparent magnitude
- 10.709
- galaxy morphological type
- 3
- redshift
- 0.011595
- right ascension
- 322.4118667
- declination
- 6.6825556
- radial velocity
- 3486
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7074
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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.