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NGC7497
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 23:9:3.5
Declination: +18:10:39
Constellation: PEG
Visual Magnitude: 12.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, L, pmE 45°, lbM
Sub-type: SBc
Steve's Notes
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NGC 7497
17.5" (9/2/89): fairly faint, fairly large, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE, brighter middle, fairly low surface brightness.
On deep images, NGC 7497 resides in a remarkable streak of "Integrated Flux Nebula" in Pegasus. IFN, also known as Galactic Cirrus is dust and gas outside the plane of the Milky Way. It dimly shines by reflected light (blue) as well as fluoresced by ultraviolet light of massive stars within the disk of our galaxy.