NGC 7355

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Galaxy
NGC 7355
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Constellation crane
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 22 h 43 m 30.5 s
declination -36 ° 51 ′ 55 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAB (rs) b: / HII  
Brightness  (visual) 14.3 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.1 mag
Angular expansion 1 ′ × 0.4 ′
Position angle 43 °
Surface brightness 13.2 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.039177 +/- 0.000120  
Radial velocity 11,745 +/- 36 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(525 ± 37)  ·  10 6  ly
(161.0 ± 11.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery John Herschel
Discovery date September 1, 1834
Catalog names
NGC  7355 • PGC  69587 • ESO  406-006 • IRAS  F22406-3707 • 2MASX  J22433054-3651545 • SGC  224039-3707.6 •

NGC 7355 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SAB (rs) b in the constellation Crane in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 525 million light years from the Milky Way and about 155,000 ly in diameter.

The object was discovered by John Herschel on September 1, 1834 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7355
  3. Seligman