NGC 7372

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Galaxy
NGC 7372
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 22 h 45 m 46.0 s
declination + 11 ° 07 ′ 51 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sbc  
Brightness  (visual) 13.7 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.5 mag
Angular expansion 1 ′ × 0.9 ′
Position angle 78 °
Surface brightness 13.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.039027 +/- 0.000014  
Radial velocity 11,700 +/- 4 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(530 ± 37)  ·  10 6  ly
(162.6 ± 11.4)  Mpc 
history
discovery Albert Marth
Discovery date August 7, 1864
Catalog names
NGC  7372 • PGC  69670 • CGCG  430-004 • MCG  + 02-58-005 • IRAS  22432 + 1051 • KUG  2243 + 108 • 2MASX  J22454596 + 1107512 •

NGC 7372 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Pegasus at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 530 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 155,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies NGC 7366 , NGC 7370 , NGC 7374 , IC 1452 .

The object was discovered by Albert Marth on August 7, 1864 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7372
  3. Seligman