NGC 7432
| Galaxy NGC 7432 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Pegasus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 22 h 58 m 01.9 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 08 ′ 04 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E. |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.60 × 1.2 |
| Position angle | 40 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025401 +/- 0.000130 |
| Radial velocity | 7615 +/- 39 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(348 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (106.6 ± 7.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | November 23, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7432 • UGC 12268 • PGC 70129 • CGCG 430-033 • MCG + 02-58-040 • 2MASX J22580191 + 1308043 • GC 4870 • H III 465 • h 2194 • GALEXASC J225801.99 + 130803.1 • LDCE 1545 NED003 | |
NGC 7432 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E3 in the constellation Pegasus at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 348 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 160,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 7413 and NGC 7414 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on November 23, 1785 .