NGC 7144

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Galaxy
NGC 7144
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Constellation crane
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 21 h 52 m 42.4 s
declination -48 ° 15 ′ 14 ″
Appearance
Morphological type E0  
Brightness  (visual) 10.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 11.7 mag
Angular expansion 3.7 ′ × 3.6 ′
Surface brightness 13.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation LGG 448  
Redshift 0.006444 +/- 0.000057  
Radial velocity (+1 932 ± 17) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(85 ± 6)  x  10 6  ly
(26.1 ± 1.8)  Mpc 
history
discovery John Herschel
Discovery date September 30, 1834
Catalog names
NGC  7144 • PGC  67557 • ESO  237-011 • 2MASX  J21524246-4815142 • SGC  214929-4829.4 • GC  4711 • h  3894 • LEDA 67557 • LDCE 1489 NED001

NGC 7144 is an elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E0 in the constellation crane at the southern sky . It is estimated to be 85 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 ly in diameter. The galaxy has an angular size of 3.7 '× 3.6' and an apparent magnitude of 10.9 mag.
The galaxy NGC 7145 is located in the same area of ​​the sky .

The object was discovered by John Herschel on September 30, 1834 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database
  2. a b c d SEDS : NGC 7144
  3. Seligman