NGC 7566
| Galaxy NGC 7566 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | fishes |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 23 h 16 m 37.4 s |
| declination | -02 ° 19 ′ 50 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (rs) a / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 115 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.026548 ± 0.000073 |
| Radial velocity | 7959 ± 22 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(361 ± 25) x 10 6 ly (110.7 ± 7.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 20, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7566 • PGC 70901 • MCG -01-59-010 • IRAS 23140-0236 • 2MASX J23163742-0219500 • GC 4923 • H III 185 • LDCE 1564 NED007 | |
NGC 7566 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Pisces on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 361 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 150,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 7544 , NGC 7546 , NGC 7554 , NGC 7556 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on September 20, 1784 .