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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 7081 is referenced by 447 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Aquarius, light-year and epoch.

It sits within the topics Aquarius (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1790 and NGC objects.

Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Aquarius
Right ascension
21 31 24.1
Declination
02 ° 29 ′ 29 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3,273 km/s
Distance
130 Mly
Type
Sb pec
Size
~ 63,576.38 ly (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.3' x 1.3'

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Aquarius
Image
NGC 7081.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
Sb
radial velocity
3243
time of discovery or invention
1790-10-10
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2691712358670072832
apparent magnitude
11.015
redshift
0.010918
right ascension
322.85042746397710
declination
2.49133406317930
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 7081
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 7081 is a spiral galaxy located about 130 million light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. NGC 7081 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on October 10, 1790.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 7081: SN 2019sox (type II, mag. 18.7).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7081” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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