NGC 7836
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 7836 is referenced by 566 other articles, and connects out to apparent magnitude, epoch and angular diameter.
It is catalogued under topics including Andromeda (constellation), Astronomical objects discovered in 1885 and Discoveries by Lewis Swift.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 08 01.6
- Declination
- 33 ° 04 ′ 15 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,904 km/s
- Distance
- 260 Mly (80 Mpc )
- Type
- Irr?, Sb
- Size
- ~83,000 ly (25.5 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.9 ′ × 0.5 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 66.66
- Image
- SDSS NGC 7836.jpeg
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- radial velocity
- 4902
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2874124120856215552
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-09-20
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- redshift
- 0.016488
- apparent magnitude
- 10.277
- galaxy morphological type
- E...
- right ascension
- 2.00676926266180
- declination
- 33.07058950356020
- Commons category
- NGC 7836
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7836 is an irregular spiral galaxy located about 260 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It is part of the Perseus–Pisces Supercluster. This galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on September 20, 1885. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 14.4 and spans an angular size of 0.9′ × 0.5′.
NGC 7836 is a member of the NGC 7831 Group (also known as LGG 1), which contains at least 18 galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7836” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.