Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01200557
- Morphology
- Sbc
- Coordinates
- RA 337.8868° · Dec 30.9560°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 22 31 32
- Declination
- +30 ° 57 ′ 24 ″
- Distance
- 170 Mly
- Type
- Sbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' x 1.1'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 24.43
- Image
- NGC 7303.jpg
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- right ascension
- 337.8867500
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-09-15
- apparent magnitude
- 10.406
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- redshift
- 0.012629
- catalog code
- Z 2229.2+3042
- declination
- 30.9559583
- radial velocity
- 3762
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7303
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7303 is a barred spiral galaxy around 170 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. NGC 7303 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on September 15, 1828.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7303” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.