Key facts
- Constellation
- Microscopium
- Right ascension
- 21 24 58.7
- Declination
- −42 ° 27 ′ 38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,385 km/s
- Distance
- 230.1 Mly
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 x 1.0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Microscopium
- Distance from Earth
- 71.06
- Image
- NGC 7057 imaged by Legacy Surveys.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-09-02
- redshift
- 0.017052
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6577418955543606272
- apparent magnitude
- 9.690
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- right ascension
- 321.24461567342170
- declination
- -42.46042179236470
- radial velocity
- 5068
- Commons category
- NGC 7057
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7057 is an elliptical galaxy located about 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Microscopium. NGC 7057 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on September 2, 1836.
Group membership
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q665988” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.