NGC 7140

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Galaxy
NGC 7140 / NGC 7141
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Constellation Indus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 21 h 52 m 15.3 s
declination -55 ° 34 ′ 11 ″
Appearance
Morphological type (R'_2) SB (rs) b  
Brightness  (visual) 11.7 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 12.5 mag
Angular expansion 4.1 'x 3.0'
Position angle 18 °
Surface brightness 14.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.009947 +/- 0.000010  
Radial velocity 2982 +/- 3 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(131 ± 9)  ·  10 6  ly
(40.1 ± 2.8)  Mpc 
history
discovery John Herschel
Discovery date October 4, 1834
Catalog names
NGC  7141 • PGC  67532 • ESO  189-007 • IRAS  21488-5548 • 2MASX  J21521535-5534107 • SGC  214849-5548.3 • LEDA 67532

NGC 7140 = NGC 7141 is a ring-shaped bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Indians in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 131 million light years from the Milky Way and about 160,000 ly in diameter.

The object was discovered by John Herschel on October 4, 1834 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 7140
  3. Seligman