NGC 714

Part of a swarm of galaxies that straddle the border between eastern Andromeda and Triangulum, occupying an area of the sky southward of the open cluster C28 in the sky. This group of galaxies is designated Abell 262, and NGC 714 is one of some two hundred distant galaxies that make up the galaxy cluster, which is itself a part of the extensive Perseus-Pisces Supercluster. The largest and most massive of NGC 714's fellow galaxies is NGC 708, an immense elliptical galaxy that lies just ten arcminutes to the southwest from NGC 714.

NGC 714 itself is a lenticular galaxy, oriented so that it is seen at a narrow angle from Earth, and thus appears as a thin and relatively featureless ellipse, measuring 1.5 arcminutes along its longer axis, and just 0.3 arcminutes across its short axis. The galaxy and its group are estimated to lie some two hundred million light years beyond the Milky Way, so these angular measurements translate to an approximate galactic diameter of some seventy-five thousand light years. At such a great distance, NGC 714 is receding rapidly from the Local Group, at a rate estimated at some 1.5% of the speed of light.