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NGC 7392 in Aquarius
Date .............. December 6, 2020 |
NGC 7392 is a galaxy in southern Aquarius, rated at magnitude 11.9 in TheSky®
planetarium software but 12.6 in the Herschel 400ii atlas I downloaded, so its
magnitude is most likely somewhere in that range. I noted it as small, with
low surface brightness, and no structure that I could discern. The zoomed
in image included in the atlas greatly helped nail down exactly where I should
be looking. This object is ostensibly 137 million light years away, so I find it remarkable that it should be as bright as it is. This is about twice as far away as Virgo cluster galaxies. It is classified as a barred spiral, but I was not able to see any structure. |