NGC 7740

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Galaxy
NGC 7740
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 23 h 43 m 32.2 s
declination + 27 ° 18 ′ 45 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0  
Brightness  (visual) 13.9 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 14.9 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 '× 0.5'
Position angle 140 °
Surface brightness 12.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.030308 ± 0.000100  
Radial velocity (9086 ± 30) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(414 ± 29)  x  10 6  ly
(127.0 ± 8.9)  Mpc 
history
discovery Guillaume Bigourdan
Discovery date October 27, 1886
Catalog names
NGC  7740 • PGC  72216 • CGCG  476-123 • 2MASX  J23433227 + 2718426 • LDCE 1590 NED013

NGC 7740 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Pegasus in the northern sky . It is an estimated 414 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on October 27, 1886 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 7740
  3. Seligman