Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.01929
- Morphology
- Sbc
- Coordinates
- RA 319.1152° · Dec -0.8265°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Right ascension
- 21 16 27.6
- Declination
- −00 ° 49 ′ 35 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,811 km/s
- Distance
- 270 Mly
- Type
- SAB(r)b, LINER
- Size
- ~127,348 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.38 x 0.69
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Distance from Earth
- 94.9
- Image
- SDSS NGC 7047.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1873-08-20
- catalog code
- LEDA 66461
- radial velocity
- 5739
- apparent magnitude
- 15.835
- galaxy morphological type
- SBbc
- redshift
- 0.019230
- right ascension
- 319.1151417
- declination
- -0.8264972
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7047
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7047 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located about 270 million light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. NGC 7047 is also classified as a LINER-type galaxy. NGC 7047 has an estimated diameter of 127,350 light years. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on August 20, 1873.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 7047: PTF09cjq (type II, mag. unknown) was discovered 22 October 2009 by the Palomar Transient Factory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7047” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.