NGC 7500

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Galaxy
NGC 7500
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 23 h 10 m 29.8 s
declination + 11 ° 00 ′ 44 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0  
Brightness  (visual) 13.6 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.6 mag
Angular expansion 2.1 '× 1.1'
Position angle 125 °
Surface brightness 14.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.035418 +/- 0.000103  
Radial velocity 10,618 ± 31 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(481 ± 34)  ·  10 6  ly
(147.6 ± 10.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery Lewis Swift
Discovery date August 8, 1886
Catalog names
NGC  7500 • UGC  12399 • PGC  70620 • CGCG  431-008 • MCG  + 02-59-004 • 2MASX  J23102978 + 1100441 • GALEX ASC J231029.71 + 110042.8

NGC 7500 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 481 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 295,000 light-years across.
In the same area of ​​the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 7519 .

The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on August 8, 1886 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7500
  3. Seligman