Q606147

spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus

Key facts

Constellation: Pegasus
Right ascension: 22 36 03.4
Declination: +33 ° 56 ′ 53 ″
Redshift: 786 ± 20 km/ s
Distance: 39 million ly (12 Mpc )
Apparent magnitude v: +13.2
Type: SA(s)d
Size: 9.56 kiloparsecs (31,170 light-years ) (diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec B-band isophote )
Apparent size v: 2.2 ′ × 1.2 ′
Notable features: Foreground projection on Stephan's Quintet

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Distance from Earth: 14
Image: NGC 7320.jpg

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right ascension: 339.01419298484110
galaxy morphological type: SAc
declination: 33.94823069468430
catalog code: Gaia DR2 1901626530135021568
Commons category: NGC 7320
time of discovery or invention: 1876-09-23
apparent magnitude: 13.383
radial velocity: 795
redshift: 0.002622
parallax: 0.5513
right ascension component of proper motion: -1.271
declination component of proper motion: -0.170

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NGC 7320 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on 27 September 1873 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan.

NGC 7320 is a member of Stephan's Quintet, however, it is not an actual member of the galaxy group, but a much closer line-of-sight galaxy at a distance of about 40 million light years, the same as the nearby NGC 7331. Other galaxies of Stephan's Quintet are some 300 million light-years distant.