NGC 7479

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Galaxy
NGC 7479
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Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
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Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinox :  J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 23 h 04 m 56.6 s
declination + 12 ° 19 ′ 22 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (s) c; LINER Sy2  
Brightness  (visual) 10.9 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 11.6 mag
Angular expansion 4 ′ × 3.1 ′
Position angle 25 °
Surface brightness 13.5 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.007942 ± 0.000005  
Radial velocity (2381 ± 1) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0 		(114 ± 8)  x  10 6  ly
(34.9 ± 2.4)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date October 19, 1784
Catalog names
NGC  7479 • UGC  12343 • PGC  70419 • CGCG  430-058 • MCG  + 02-58-060 • IRAS  23024 + 1203 • KUG  2302 + 120 • 2MASX  J23045666 + 1219223 • GC  4892 • H  I 55 • h  2205 • Kara 1004 • HIPASS  J2304 + 12

NGC 7479 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB (s) c in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is an estimated 114 million light years from the Milky Way and is classified as a Starbust and Seyfert-2 galaxy .

The object was discovered on October 19, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .

Web links

Commons : NGC 7479  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. ↑ a b c d SEDS: NGC 7479
  3. ↑ Seligman