Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- LIN
- Redshift
- z = 0.01335
- Morphology
- Sab
- Coordinates
- RA 354.6717° · Dec 15.9547°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 23 38 41.2192
- Declination
- +15 ° 57 ′ 17.207 ″
- Redshift
- 0.013 353 ± 0.000 006 67
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,003 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 175.0 ± 12.3 Mly (53.67 ± 3.78 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 7711 group (LGG 477)
- Apparent magnitude v
- 13.3g
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- ~122,600 ly (37.58 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.69′ × 1.19′
via Wikipedia infobox
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 3,639±26 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 175.0 ± 12.3 Mly (53.67 ± 3.78 Mpc). It was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on 12 August 1864.
NGC 7722 is a LINER galaxy, i.e. a galaxy whose nucleus has an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weakly ionized atoms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1168926” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 30 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- Русский
- Português
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Czech
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Galician
- Georgian
- Kazakh
- Luxembourgish
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0