NGC 7606 — Sb in Aquarius
Sb in Aquarius, 5.1 arcminutes across, its light 106 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 7606
What you are looking at
NGC 7606 is a spiral with a sizeable central bulge and well-defined arms, close in type to the Milky Way. It is tilted about 33° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 158,000 light-years, about 1.6 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as an emission-line galaxy: its spectrum shows the glow of gas lit by young stars. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 1987N. It is cited in 199 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 13 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 106 million years. When it left, the first flowering plants had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,218 km/s (5.0 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 7606 sits within the constellation Aquarius. It is best placed on autumn evenings: around 9:30 pm in October it stands about 42° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 119 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 71047 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Angular diameter | 5.14′ |
| Right ascension | 23h19m04.8s |
| Declination | -08°29′06.3″ |
| Constellation | Aquarius |
| Inclination | 33.0° |
| Light travel time | 106 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 5.1 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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