Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.016601
- Morphology
- E
- Coordinates
- RA 30.4167° · Dec 31.8265°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 01 40.0
- Declination
- +31 ° 49 ′ 35.40 ″
- Redshift
- 0.016601±0.000177
- Distance
- 217 Mly (66.58 M pc )
- Type
- S0^-?
- Size
- 102,000 ly
- Apparent size v
- 1.66′ × 1.047′
- Notable features
- N/A
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 785 is an elliptical galaxy located around 217 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. NGC 785 was discovered in 1876 by Édouard Stephan, and it is around 102,000 light-years across in diameter. NGC 785 is not known to have an Active galactic nucleus, and is not known to have lots of star formation.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 785” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.