Key facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Right ascension
- 21 19 51.3
- Declination
- −08 ° 46 ′ 59 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,519 km/s
- Distance
- 98.4 Mly
- Type
- SB(r)a pec
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 x 1.1
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Image
- NGC 7051.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-07-30
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6897551524135301888
- apparent magnitude
- 9.467
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- redshift
- 0.008629
- right ascension
- 319.96387440593370
- declination
- -8.78298506196310
- radial velocity
- 2576
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.334
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.525
- Commons category
- NGC 7051
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7051 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on July 30, 1827.
On June 18, 2002 a type II supernova designated as SN 2002dq was discovered in NGC 7051.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7051” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.