NGC 7566

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Galaxy
NGC 7566
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation fishes
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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  
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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 7566
  3. Seligman