NGC 705
Sign in to savespiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.014987034797252972
- Morphology
- SO-a
- Coordinates
- RA 28.1730° · Dec 36.1440°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 01 52 41.5
- Declination
- 36 ° 08 ′ 38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4514 km/s
- Distance
- 190 Mly (58.2 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Abell 262
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- ~69,000 ly (21.2 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 0.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0705 DSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.0151
- catalog code
- LEDA 6958
- Commons category
- NGC 705
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-21
- apparent magnitude
- 14.5
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- right ascension
- 28.173583
- declination
- 36.143806
- radial velocity
- 4773
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 705 is a lenticular galaxy located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on September 21, 1786 and is also a member of Abell 262.
Although NGC 705 is an early type galaxy, it has a dust lane that is concentrated toward its central region. It is projected to lie about 0.098 Mly (0.03 Mpc) from the cd-galaxy NGC 708.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 705” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.