NGC 7250

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Galaxy
NGC 7250
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Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
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Constellation lizard
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 22 h 18 m 17.8 s
declination + 40 ° 33 ′ 45 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sdm? / Sbrst  
Brightness  (visual) 12.6 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 13.2 mag
Angular expansion 1.7 ′ × 0.8 ′
Position angle 157 °
Surface brightness 12.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.003889 ± 0.000017  
Radial velocity 1166 ± 5 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(62 ± 4)  ·  10 6  ly
(19.0 ± 1.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery William Herschel
Discovery date November 8, 1790
Catalog names
NGC  7250 • UGC  11980 • PGC  68535 • CGCG  530-022 • MCG  + 07-45-24 • IRAS  22161 + 4018 • 2MASX  J13053653-4330017 • GC  4778 • H  III 864 •

NGC 7250 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type SD in the constellation Lizard . It is around 62 million light years from the Milky Way .

The galaxy was discovered on November 8, 1790 by the astronomer William Herschel with his 18.7-inch reflecting telescope and later included in his New General Catalog by Johan Dreyer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 7250
  3. Seligman