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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Pegasus
Right ascension
22 07 52.4
Declination
+31 ° 21 ′ 33 ″
Redshift
952 ± 2 km/ s
Distance
50.0 Mly
Type
(R)SA(r)ab
Apparent size v
3.9 ′ × 3.2 ′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Pegasus
Distance from Earth
18.4
Image
NGC 7217 Hubble.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
(R)SA(r)ab
catalog code
[VDD93] 240
Commons category
NGC 7217
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1784-09-07
apparent magnitude
6.829
redshift
0.003156
right ascension
331.9682000
declination
31.3592556
radial velocity
948
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 7217 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus.

Features

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7217” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.