Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.02109792902128312
- Morphology
- S0
- Coordinates
- RA 338.8821° · Dec 34.8034°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 22 35 31.692
- Declination
- +34 ° 48 ′ 12.81 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6312 km/s
- Distance
- 282.9 Mly (86.75 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 143,200 ly (43,920 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.6 ′ × 1.6 ′
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Wikidata facts
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1872-09-11
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1903930006995451264
- apparent magnitude
- 11.902
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- redshift
- 0.020341
- right ascension
- 338.88208991041180
- declination
- 34.80344001251120
- radial velocity
- 6312
- Commons category
- NGC 7315
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7315 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered on 11 September 1872 by Édouard Stephan. It was described as "very faint, extremely small, round, brighter middle" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 7315: SN 2007B (type Ia, mag. 16.7) was discovered on 5 January 2007 by Kōichi Itagaki.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7315” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.