NGC 7427

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Galaxy
NGC 7427
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 22 h 57 m 09.9 s
declination + 08 ° 30 ′ 20 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0  
Brightness  (visual) 15.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 16.1 mag
Angular expansion 0.7 ′ × 0.7 ′
Surface brightness 14.2 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.032376 +/- 0.000080  
Radial velocity 9706 +/- 24 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(441 ± 31)  ·  10 6  ly
(135.1 ± 9.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Discovery date November 22, 1865
Catalog names
NGC  7427 • PGC  70091 • CGCG  405-018 • MCG  + 01-58-016 • 2MASX  J22570992 + 0830203 • Mrk  521 • ZWG 405.18

NGC 7427 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is estimated 441 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 90,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies NGC 7430 and NGC 7451 .

The object was discovered on November 22, 1865 by Otto Wilhelm von Struve .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d SEDS : NGC 7427
  3. Seligman