| M74 (NGC628) / Galaxy, type SA(s)c I |
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| R.A. | 01h 36m 42.0s (2000.0) |
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| Dec. | +15° 47' 11" (2000.0) |
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| Apparent Size | 10.5×9.5' |
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| Radial Velocity | +753km/s |
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| Magnitude | 10.2 |
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| Distance | 31.6 million light yrs. |
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| Group od Galaxies | NGC628 Group |
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| Other IDs | UGC1149, MCG3-5-11,
PGC05974 |
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M74 (NGC628) is only Messier's object in the constellation of Pisces.
You can find that at about 1 degree east of eta Piscium.
The galaxy has a size of 10 arc minutes and about 10th magnitude, it's a very faint spiral galaxy being face on, one of the faintest in Messier's catalogue.
It's fairly difficult work to recognize the galaxy with a medium-sized telescope unless you have extremely good-conditioned night.
Long exposure photographs show two loosely-wound spirals out from a tiny bright nucleus.
The galaxy is 31 million light years away.
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