NGC 7442

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Galaxy
NGC 7442
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 22 h 59 m 26.5 s
declination + 15 ° 32 ′ 54 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAc:  
Brightness  (visual) 13.5 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 14.2 mag
Angular expansion 1.1 '× 1.1'
Surface brightness 13.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.024243 +/- 0.000030  
Radial velocity 7268 +/- 9 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(333 ± 23)  x  10 6  ly
(102.0 ± 7.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Heinrich d'Arrest
Discovery date November 24, 1861
Catalog names
NGC  7442 • UGC  12286 • PGC  70183 • CGCG  430-042 • MCG  + 02-58-045 • IRAS  22569 + 1516 • 2MASX  J22592655 + 1532543 •

NGC 7442 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Pegasus at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 333 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 105,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 7448 , NGC 7461 , NGC 7463 , IC 1461 .

The object was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on November 24, 1861 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7442
  3. Seligman