Key facts
- Constellation
- Grus
- Right ascension
- 22 56 36.2
- Declination
- −37 ° 01 ′ 48.3 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004837 ± 0.000017
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,450 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 59.1 ± 8.5 Mly (18.2 ± 2.6 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(rs)cd
- Apparent size v
- 3.5 ′ × 2.6 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Grus
- Distance from Earth
- 21.1
- Image
- NGC7418-hst-814.png
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6547875215543055616
- Commons category
- NGC 7418
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-08-30
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- redshift
- 0.004823
- apparent magnitude
- 8.524
- right ascension
- 344.15048590788860
- declination
- -37.02996243273200
- radial velocity
- 1444
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7418 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Grus. It is located at a distance of circa 60 million light-years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7418 is about 60,000 light-years across. It was discovered by John Herschel on August 30, 1834.
Characteristics
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