NGC 7814 - Edge On Galaxy in Pegasus
To quote Burnham, a precisely edge-on galaxy with a prominent equatorial dust lane.

  • RA: 0:03
  • Dec: 16:09
  • Size: 6'x2.5'
  • Magnitude: 10.5
  • Distance: *40-55 Mly
  • Constellation: Pegasus
  • Millennium Star Atlas: Vol. I, p. 198
  • Scope: 12.5" Ritchey-Chretien at f/9
  • Autoguider: unguided
  • Sky conditions: Some cirrus streamers, good seeing
  • Film: FLI DM CCD camera
  • Exposure: 18x30 seconds L, (10,8,12)x60 seconds R,G,B
  • Date: 9-11-01

This is the replacement shot for the August version that got torpedoed by a bad camera power supply.

*This distance is a rough estimate based upon the known radial velocity of NGC 7814 compared against a plot of a moderately sized body of radial velocity data versus known distance numbers for local galaxies in the 3-60 Mly distance category. It's relatively crude and brackets a roughly two sigma uncertainty.


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