NGC 7816
Sign in to savespiral 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.