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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 07 08.79
- Declination
- +08 ° 22 ′ 59.6 ″
- Type
- S?
- Apparent size v
- 0.676 ′ × 0.457 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7840, the last numerical entry in the New General Catalogue, is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 10906 ± 49 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 160.85 ± 11.30 Mpc (~524 million light-years), and its diameter is about 162,000 light-years. It was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth on 29 November 1864.
For observing from Earth's surface, it has a magnitude of 15.5 in the early 21st century. One observing guide recommended a telescope with a least 300mm aperture for observations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7840” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.