NGC 7041
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Redshift
- z = 0.006391
- Coordinates
- RA 319.1349° · Dec -48.3636°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Indus
- Right ascension
- 21 16 32.4
- Declination
- −48 ° 21 ′ 49 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1.946 km/s
- Distance
- 77.8 Mly
- Type
- SA0
- Apparent size v
- 3.6 x 1.5
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- NGC 7041
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 66463
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-07-07
- apparent magnitude
- 8.212
- redshift
- 0.006491
- right ascension
- 319.13486436133850
- declination
- -48.36355502645290
- radial velocity
- 1910
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7041 is a lenticular galaxy located about 80 million light-years away in the constellation of Indus. NGC 7041 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on July 7, 1834.
NGC 7041 is part of the Indus Triplet of galaxies which contains the nearby galaxy NGC 7049 and the galaxy NGC 7029.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7041” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.