Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.013242494579366637
- Morphology
- E3
- Coordinates
- RA 350.0605° · Dec 8.2063°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 23 17 14.524
- Declination
- +08 ° 12 ′ 22.63 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3,944 km/s
- Type
- E2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 51.31
- Image
- NGC7619 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- apparent magnitude
- 10.262
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-09-26
- catalog code
- LEDA 71121
- redshift
- 0.012630
- galaxy morphological type
- E2
- Commons category
- NGC 7619
- right ascension
- 350.0605167
- declination
- 8.2062861
- radial velocity
- 3757
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7619 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. NGC 7619 and NGC 7626 are the dominant and brightest members of the Pegasus galaxy cluster. Both of them were discovered by William Herschel on September 26, 1785.
The radial velocity of this galaxy was measured in 1929 and found to be double that of any galaxy observed at that time. The measurement was consistent with the extrapolated value predicted by Edwin Hubble; a distance-velocity relation that would later become known as Hubble's law.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7619” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.