Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 23 20 42.5
- Declination
- +08 ° 13 ′ 01 ″
- Distance
- ~160 million
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 2.6′ × 1.8′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical radio source
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 46.59
- Image
- NGC7626 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-26
- redshift
- 0.011418
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- apparent magnitude
- 8.032
- catalog code
- [DC78] UGC 12531
- radial velocity
- 3390
- Commons category
- NGC 7626
- right ascension
- 350.1771833
- declination
- 8.2170639
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7626 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on September 26, 1785, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel.
The galaxy lies at a distance of approximately 160 million light-years from the Milky Way, based on its redshift. NGC 7626 is classified as a normal elliptical galaxy and is a prominent member of the Pegasus I Group, a small galaxy group dominated by early-type galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7626” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.