NGC 7496
| Galaxy NGC 7496 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | crane |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 23 h 09 m 46.9 s |
| declination | -43 ° 25 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ':) SB (rs) bc / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 3.3 ′ × 3.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 2 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 472 |
| Redshift | 0.005500 ± 0.000018 |
| Radial velocity | 1649 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(73 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (22.3 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 5, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7496 • PGC 70588 • ESO 291-001 • MCG -07-47-020 • IRAS 23069-4341 • 2MASX J23094729-4325408 • SGC 230659-4342.0 • VV 771 • LDCE 1559 NED004 | |
NGC 7496 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Crane in the southern sky . It is an estimated 73 million light years from the Milky Way and about 70,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on September 5, 1834 by the astronomer John Herschel with his 18.7 inch reflector telescope and was later included in his New General Catalog by Johan Dreyer .
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