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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 55 21.53040
Declination
−09 ° 05 ′ 01.6672 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5200 km/s
Distance
239.1 ± 16.8 Mly (73.32 ± 5.15 Mpc )
Type
Sc(f)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Cetus
Image
NGC 0713 SDSS.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 713
time of discovery or invention
1886-00-00
discoverer or inventor
Francis Preserved Leavenworth
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2462763560678802048
apparent magnitude
13.579
galaxy morphological type
Sb
right ascension
28.83970998144610
declination
-9.08379643426550
parallax
1.2563
radial velocity
5200
redshift
0.0175
epoch
J2000.0
right ascension component of proper motion
1.105
declination component of proper motion
-0.333
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 713 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus about 234 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.

NGC 713 (SDSS)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 713” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.