NGC 7672
| Galaxy NGC 7672 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Pegasus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 23 h 27 m 31.4 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 23 ′ 07 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 '× 0.6' |
| Position angle | 36 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013376 ± 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 4010 ± 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(186 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (57.1 ± 4.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | RJ Mitchell |
| Discovery date | October 23, 1857 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 7672 • PGC 71485 • CGCG 431-070 • MCG + 02-59-045 • IRAS 23249 + 1206 • 2MASX J23273143 + 1223065 • GALEX ASC J232731.43 + 122307.0 • LDCE 1576 NED004 • NVSS J232731 + 122307 | |
NGC 7672 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is an estimated 186 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years across. Possibly it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair with NGC 7671 .
The object was discovered by RJ Mitchell on October 23, 1857 .