Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 23 10 22.375
- Declination
- +07 ° 34 ′ 50.20 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 11600 km/s
- Distance
- 546.8 ± 38.3 Mly (167.64 ± 11.75 Mpc )
- Type
- SA0 (s):
- Size
- ~262,200 ly (80.39 kpc ) (estimated)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7499 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy within the constellation Pisces. NGC 7499 is its New General Catalogue designation. It was discovered on September 2, 1864 by the astronomer Albert Marth.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7499” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.