NGC 7520

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Galaxy
NGC 7520 / IC 5290
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Constellation Aquarius
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 23 h 12 m 53.2 s
declination -23 ° 28 ′ 09 ″
Appearance
Morphological type (R) Sa  
Brightness  (visual) 13.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.0 mag
Angular expansion 1.3 '× 0.8'
Position angle 66 °
Surface brightness 13.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.020718 +/- 0.000033  
Radial velocity 6211 +/- 10 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(280 ± 20)  x  10 6  ly
(85.8 ± 6.0)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Temple
Discovery date 1876
Catalog names
NGC  7520 • IC  5290 • PGC  70705 • ESO  535-008 • MCG  -04-54-014 • 2MASX  J21560971-4931188 • SGC  231013-2344.6 •

NGC 7520 = IC 5290 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Aquarius in the southern sky . It is an estimated 280 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1876 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7520
  3. Seligman