Key facts
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Right ascension
- 21 48 19.5
- Declination
- −34 ° 57 ′ 04 ″
- Redshift
- 0.016151 ± 0.000050
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,842 ± 15 km / s
- Distance
- 221 Mly (68 Mpc )
- Type
- Sa pec
- Size
- 187,500 ly (57.51 kpc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 ′ × 1.4 ′
- Notable features
- Seyfert and starburst galaxy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Distance from Earth
- 71.1
- Image
- NGC 7130 Hubble.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 7130
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-00-00
- catalog code
- PBC J2148.2-3455
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- apparent magnitude
- 9.198
- redshift
- 0.016151
- right ascension
- 327.0812083
- declination
- -34.9513139
- radial velocity
- 4778
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7130 (also known as IC 5135) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It is located at a distance of about 220 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7130 is about 188,000 light years across. It was discovered by John Herschel on September 25, 1834, and discovered independently by Lewis Swift on September 17, 1897. The location of the galaxy given in the New General Catalogue was off by 30 arcminutes in declination from the location of the galaxy.
Characteristics
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