NGC 7303

Last updated
NGC 7303
NGC7303 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 7303
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Pegasus
Right ascension 22h 31m 32s [1]
Declination +30° 57′ 24″ [1]
Redshift 0.0123 [1]
Distance 170 Mly
Apparent magnitude  (V)12.8 [1]
Characteristics
Type Sbc [1]
Apparent size  (V)1.5' x 1.1' [1]
Other designations
CGCG 495-5, IRAS 22292+3042, KAZ 293, MCG 5-53-4, PGC 69061, UGC 12065 [1]

NGC 7303 is a barred spiral galaxy [2] around 170 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. [2] [3] NGC 7303 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on September 15, 1828. [4]

Contents

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 7303. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  2. 1 2 Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 7303 Deep Sky Objects Browser". DSO Browser. Archived from the original on 2017-08-27. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  3. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  4. ↑ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 7300 - 7349". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2017-04-29.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.