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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC7499 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 70608
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- redshift
- 0.03917
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-02
- apparent magnitude
- 9.999
- right ascension
- 347.5932292
- declination
- 7.5806111
- radial velocity
- 11916
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7499
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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.