Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 21 26 32.4
- Declination
- 12 ° 11 ′ 03 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,235 km/s
- Distance
- 216 Mly
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 0.10 x 0.09
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Image
- NGC 7068.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1863-11-07
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1746056217602615552
- apparent magnitude
- 12.832
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- redshift
- 0.017289
- right ascension
- 321.63474760238220
- declination
- 12.18438896333340
- radial velocity
- 5138
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7068
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7068 is a spiral galaxy located about 215 million light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. NGC 7068 was discovered by astronomer Albert Marth on November 7, 1863.
On June 26, 2013 a Type Ia supernova designated as SN 2013ei was discovered in NGC 7068.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1149384” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.