Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 01 59 19.5443
- Declination
- +19 ° 00 ′ 27.751 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2469 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 105.7 ± 7.5 Mly (32.42 ± 2.29 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)b
- Size
- ~204,000 ly (62.56 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 7.2′ × 4.3′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Distance from Earth
- 130000000
- Image
- NGC772 - Noirlab2209a.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 7525
- Commons category
- NGC 772
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-11-29
- apparent magnitude
- 7.197
- galaxy morphological type
- SBb
- redshift
- 0.008246
- right ascension
- 29.83148195231150
- declination
- 19.00763233295590
- radial velocity
- 2431
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 772 (also known as Arp 78 or the Fiddlehead Galaxy) is a large unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 106 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 29 November 1785.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 772” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.