NGC 7671

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Galaxy
NGC 7671
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 23 h 27 m 19.3 s
declination + 12 ° 28 ′ 03 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SA0:  
Brightness  (visual) 12.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 13.8 mag
Angular expansion 1.4 '× 0.8'
Position angle 138 °
Surface brightness 12.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.013770 ± 0.000093  
Radial velocity (4128 ± 28) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(191 ± 13)  ·  10 6  ly
(58.7 ± 4.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date October 20, 1784
Catalog names
NGC  7671 • UGC  12602 • PGC  71478 • CGCG  431-069 • MCG  + 02-59-044 • 2MASX  J23271932 + 1228025 • GC  4966 • H  III 226 • h  2242 • GALEX ASC J232719.43 + 122802.6 • LDCE 1576 NED003

NGC 7671 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble-type So in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 191 million light years from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter. It is possible that it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair with NGC 7672 .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on October 20, 1784 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 7671
  3. Seligman