NGC 7610

NGC 7610 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. Discovered by Andrew Ainslie Common in August 1880, it was accidentally "rediscovered" by him the same month, and later given the designation NGC 7616.^[3]

NGC 7610
SDSS image of NGC 7610
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Pegasus
Right ascension	23h 19m 41.3906s[1]
Declination	+10° 11′ 05.838″[1]
Redshift	0.011855[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	3554 ± 1 km/s[1]
Distance	160 Mly[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	+13.44[1]
Characteristics
Type	Scd[1]
Size	~110,100 ly (33.75 kpc) (estimated)[1]
Apparent size (V)	2.5′ × 1.9′[1]
Other designations
IRAS 23171+0954, NGC 7616, UGC 12511, MCG +02-59-025, PGC 71087, CGCG 431-042[1]

Supernova

One supernova has been observed in NGC 7610: SN 2013fs (type II-P, mag. 16.5) was discovered by Kōichi Itagaki on 7 October 2013.^[4][5] It was detected approximately 3 hours after the light from the explosion reached Earth, and within a few hours optical spectra were obtained - the earliest such observations ever made of a supernova.^[2]

See also

• List of NGC objects (7001–7840)