Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 06 51.4
- Declination
- 08 ° 21 ′ 05 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10880 km/s
- Distance
- 470 Mly (143 Mpc )
- Type
- Sb
- Size
- ~55,000 ly (17 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.4 x 0.2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Image
- NGC7837 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-11-29
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2752071561304381312
- apparent magnitude
- 11.461
- galaxy morphological type
- S?
- right ascension
- 1.71422309516840
- declination
- 8.35130134001110
- radial velocity
- 10880
- Commons category
- NGC 7837
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7837 is a spiral galaxy located about 470 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Albert Marth on November 29, 1864. NGC 7837 appears to interact with NGC 7838 forming Arp 246.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q2084643” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.