NGC 7814

NGC 7814 (also known as UGC 8 or Caldwell 43) is a spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth. It is sometimes referred to as "the little sombrero", a miniature version of Messier 104. The star field behind NGC 7814 is known for its density of faint, remote galaxies as can be seen in the image here, in the same vein as the Hubble Deep Field.

NGC 7814
NGC 7814 by the Mount Lemmon Observatory
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Pegasus
Right ascension	00h 03m 14.9103s[1]
Declination	+16° 08′ 43.11″[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	1050 ± 4 km/s[1]
Distance	40.0 ± 2.6 Mly (12.2 ± 0.8 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	11.6[1]
Characteristics
Type	SA(S)ab[1]
Size	~104,500 ly (32.04 kpc) (estimated)[1]
Apparent size (V)	5.5′ × 2.3′[1]
Other designations
Caldwell 43, IRAS F00006+1552, UGC 8, MCG +03-01-020, PGC 218, CGCG 456-024[1]

It's among the few bright galaxies that exhibit modest distortion and twisting of the galaxy's plane in optical wavelengths. The light from the distant background galaxies becomes more red as it passes through NGC 7814's halo. This has been used to determine the amount of gas and dust in the halo.^[3]

One supernova has been observed in NGC 7814: SN 2021rhu (Type Ia, mag 15.66) was discovered by Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) on 1 July 2021.^[4]

See also

• Sombrero Galaxy
• List of NGC objects (7001–7840)