NGC 7829

NGC 7829 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus.^[1] NGC 7829 was discovered by American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.^[2] NGC 7829 forms with its neighbor NGC 7828 a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies. The pair appears in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 144.

NGC 7829
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	00h 06m 28.9836s[1]
Declination	−13° 25′ 14.256″[1]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.07
Surface brightness	24.82 mag/arcsec2
Characteristics
Type	S0 pec[1]
Other designations
2MASX J00062900-1325140, PGC 488

See also

• Interacting galaxy
• List of NGC objects (7001–7840)

External links

• NGC 7829 at SIMBAD