Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Redshift
- z = 0.02474292025442071
- Coordinates
- RA 357.2278° · Dec -16.5411°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Right ascension
- 23 48 54.712
- Declination
- −16 ° 32 ′ 28.26 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7326 km/s
- Distance
- 336.3 ± 23.6 Mly (103.10 ± 7.24 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB0 pec:
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Wikidata facts
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-11-28
- catalog code
- LEDA 72496
- apparent magnitude
- 9.601
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- right ascension
- 357.2279667
- declination
- -16.5411833
- radial velocity
- 7326
- redshift
- 0.024437
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7759 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. It is located about 340 million light-years (100 megaparsecs) away from the Sun. It was discovered independently by American astronomers Lewis A. Swift and Francis Preserved Leavenworth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7759” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.