4C +74.26 is a radio-loud quasar[1] located 1.3 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cepheus with a redshift of (z) 0.104.

[7] Its radio lobes are found to be large with two hotspots located in both northern and southern directions.

[5][3] It also contains a one-sided jet with an approximate size of 400 kiloparsecs (kpc), seen by Very-long-baseline interferometry and Very Large Array.

The spectrum of the object shows broad Balmer emission line features reaching full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 7500 km s−1 and a non-stellar continuum.

In additional, 4C +74.26 also has narrow forbidden lines[13] and is heavily affected by X-ray absorption caused by both intrinsic and Galactic material.