NGC 7378
| Galaxy NGC 7378 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Aquarius |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 22 h 47 m 47.5 s |
| declination | -11 ° 49 ′ 00 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (r) from? / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 x 0.9 |
| Position angle | 175 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008599 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 2578 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(120 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (36.7 ± 2.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Temple |
| Discovery date | September 19, 1879 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7378 • PGC 069734 • MCG -02-58-005 • 2MASX J22474769-1148598 • LQAC 341-011 001 | |
NGC 7378 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Aquarius on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 320 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 50,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 7371 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Tempel on September 19, 1879 .