Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 01 59 35.915
- Declination
- +30 ° 54 ′ 35.65 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4404 km/s
- Distance
- 177 Mly (54.2 Mpc )
- Type
- Sc
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 55.72
- Image
- NGC 0769 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1866-11-09
- discoverer or inventor
- Truman Henry Safford
- catalog code
- LEDA 7537
- redshift
- 0.014800
- apparent magnitude
- 10.400
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- Commons category
- NGC 769
- right ascension
- 29.8996458
- declination
- 30.9099028
- radial velocity
- 4404
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 769 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum about 197 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Truman Safford in 1866.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 769” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.