Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 8,408 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.007742
- Coordinates
- RA 317.3968° · Dec -49.3036°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Indus
- Right ascension
- 21 09 35.2
- Declination
- −49 ° 18 ′ 13 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2308 km/s
- Distance
- 95 Mly (29.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(rs)0^0
- Size
- ~65,000 ly (20 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 x 1.1
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Indus
- Distance from Earth
- 31.98
- Image
- NGC 7022.jpg
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- right ascension component of proper motion
- 1.300
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6478835815284038016
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-02
- apparent magnitude
- 10.230
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- redshift
- 0.007655
- Commons category
- NGC 7022
- right ascension
- 317.39682300008300
- declination
- -49.30363898105880
- radial velocity
- 2312
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination component of proper motion
- 1.783
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7022 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 95 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Indus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on October 2, 1834.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7022” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.