NGC 7373

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Galaxy
NGC 7373
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 22 h 46 m 19.4 s
declination + 03 ° 12 ′ 36 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAB (s) 0 ^ 0 ^  
Brightness  (visual) 13.7 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.7 mag
Angular expansion 1.3 ′ × 0.5 ′
Position angle 16 °
Surface brightness 13.1 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.015654 +/- 0.000077  
Radial velocity 4693 +/- 23 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(216 ± 15)  ·  10 6  ly
(66.3 ± 4.7)  Mpc 
history
discovery Albert Marth
Discovery date August 11, 1864
Catalog names
NGC  7373 • PGC  69688 • CGCG  379-004 • 2MASX  J22461942 + 0312360 •

NGC 7373 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 216 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 80,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies NGC 7367 and NGC 7376 .

The object was discovered by Albert Marth on August 11, 1864 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7373
  3. Seligman