NGC 74
| Galaxy NGC 74 |
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| The NGC-70 group captured with a 24-inch reflector. NGC 74 is in the upper right. (North is roughly in the lower right corner of this picture.) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 18 m 49.3 s |
| declination | + 30 ° 03 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 131 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023646 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | 7089 ± 23 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(325 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (99.5 ± 7.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | RJ Mitchell |
| Discovery date | October 7, 1855 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 74 • PGC 1219 • MCG + 05-01-071 • 2MASX J00184929 + 3003436 • GC 37 • | |
NGC 74 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda . It is located a few arc minutes east of VV 166 . It is about 325 million light-years away from the Milky Way , has an estimated diameter of 65,000 light-years, and belongs to the galaxy group VV 166 .
NGC 74 was discovered on October 7, 1855 by RJ Mitchell , an assistant to William Parsons .