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NGC 79
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elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
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Vinony's link graph records 983 inbound references to NGC 79, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.
It sits within the topics Andromeda (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1884 and Elliptical galaxies.
Vinony links it to 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 21 02.838
- Declination
- +22 ° 33 ′ 59.06 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5444 km/s
- Distance
- 272.54 ± 0.75 Mly (83.56 ± 0.23 Mpc )
- Type
- cE
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- galaxy group
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 74.05
- Image
- NGC79 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 79
- catalog code
- LEDA 1340
- discoverer or inventor
- Guillaume Bigourdan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-11-14
- apparent magnitude
- 10.258
- galaxy morphological type
- -4.9
- right ascension
- 5.2618250
- declination
- 22.5664056
- redshift
- 0.018326
- radial velocity
- 5444
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 79 is an elliptical galaxy estimated to be about 270 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. NGC 79 is its New General Catalogue designation. Its apparent magnitude is 14.9. It was discovered on 14 November 1884 by Guillaume Bigourdan.
NGC 79 (near-infrared)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 79” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.