NGC 7320C
| Galaxy data from NGC 7320C |
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| Illustration of Stephen's quintet with the galaxy NGC 7320C (top left). | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Pegasus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 22 h 36 m 20.4 s |
| declination | + 33 ° 59 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SAB (s) 0 / a |
| Brightness (visual) | 16.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.6 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 172 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Stephan's quintet |
| Redshift | (+19964 ± 30) · 10 −6 |
| Radial velocity | +5985 ± 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(277 ± 19) x 10 6 ly (84.9 ± 5.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Edouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | September 23, 1876 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7320C • UGC 12101 • PGC 69279 • MCG + 6-49-43 • Arp 319 • GC 6064 • NPM1G: +33.0467 • Stephan: VIII | |
NGC 7320C is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus that is approximately 277 million light years from the Milky Way . NGC 7320C is a member of the Stephans Quintet galaxy group . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This group of galaxies belongs to the class of galaxies .
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7
Web links
- astronews: A detailed look at Stephen's quintet
- Direct spectrum: Too close to the red lantern
- extrasolarplanest: Galactic contortionists captured by the Gemini observatory
- NOAO
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope
- DSS Images for NGC 7300 through NGC 7399
- ARP ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES
- Seligman Arp