NGC 7608
| Galaxy  NGC 7608  | 
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Pegasus | 
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Position  equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0  | 
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| Right ascension | 23 h 19 m 15.3 s | 
| declination | + 08 ° 21 ′ 01 ″ | 
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc? | 
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag | 
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag | 
| Angular expansion | 1.50 × 0.4 | 
| Position angle | 20 ° | 
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² | 
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 473 | 
| Redshift | 0.011701 ± 0.000030 | 
| Radial velocity | 3508 ± 9 km / s | 
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Stroke distance  v rad / H 0  | 
(163 ± 11)  ·  10 6  ly (50.1 ± 3.5) Mpc  | 
| history | |
| discovery | Albert Marth | 
| Discovery date | November 25, 1864 | 
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7608 • UGC 12500 • PGC 71055 • MCG + 01-59-044 • IRAS F23167 + 0804 • 2MASX J23191533 + 0821005 • GALEX ASC J231915.28 + 082102.1 • LDCE 1573 NED005 | |
NGC 7608 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Pegasus at the northern sky . It is an estimated 163 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 ly. 
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 7612 , NGC 7615 , NGC 7617 , IC 5309 .
The object was discovered by Albert Marth on November 25, 1864 .
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