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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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.