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NGC 7
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 23
- Image
- NGC7 ESO KIDS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 7
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- catalog code
- APMBGC 409-066+005
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-27
- apparent magnitude
- 13.9
- redshift
- 0.004990
- right ascension
- 2.08458
- declination
- -29.91694
- radial velocity
- 1495
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation. It was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel in 1834, who was using an 18.7 inch reflector telescope at the time. Astronomer Steve Gottlieb described the galaxy as faint, albeit large, and edge-on from the perspective of the Milky Way; he also noted how the galaxy could only be observed clearly with peripheral vision, not by looking directly at it.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.