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spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

Key facts

Constellation
Pisces
Right ascension
00 03 48.8
Declination
07 ° 28 ′ 43 ″
Redshift
0.017480/5240 km/s
Distance
217,249,200 ly
Type
Sbc
Size
~ 65,468.34 ly
Apparent size v
1.7 x 1.5

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Pisces
Image
NGC 7816.jpg
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radial velocity
5242
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2745906221651850496
time of discovery or invention
1788-09-26
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
apparent magnitude
9.525
galaxy morphological type
Sb/Sc
right ascension
0.95366235570680
declination
7.47871324311650
redshift
0.017475
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 7816
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 7816 is a spiral galaxy located about 215 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on September 26, 1785.

One supernovae has been observed in NGC 7816: SN 2017gww (Type II, mag. 17.9) was discovered by Kōichi Itagaki on September 26, 2017.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7816” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.