Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 23 10 42.279
- Declination
- +07 ° 34 ′ 03.66 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 12920 km/s
- Distance
- 521.72 ± 0.29 Mly (159.96 ± 0.09 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude v
- − 22.7
- Type
- E2:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- brightest cluster galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 159.96
- Image
- NGC7503 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-02
- catalog code
- GB6 B2308+0718
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- redshift
- 0.044184
- apparent magnitude
- 12.480
- right ascension
- 347.6759958
- declination
- 7.5675833
- radial velocity
- 12880.9
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7503
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7503 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by the astronomer Albert Marth on September 2, 1864. It is the brightest galaxy in its cluster (a BCG).
In 2001, SN 2001ic, a type Ia supernova, was detected within NGC 7503.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7503” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.