NGC 7525

GALAXYElliptical galaxy E

ILLUSTRATION FROM HUBBLE TYPE E · MAJOR AXIS 0.9′ · AXIS RATIO 0.57 · POSITION ANGLE 60°

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OVERVIEW

] GALAXY

NGC 7525 is an elliptical galaxy E in the constellation Pegasus. It is catalogued as IRAS 23111+1344, IRAS F23111+1344 and LEDA 70731, among 6 designations in total. It was discovered in 1864.

WHAT IT IS
Elliptical galaxy
HOW BIG ON THE SKY
54

Small enough that the full Moon would cover it several times over.

WHERE TO LOOK
Pegasus

The patch of sky it sits in, as seen from Earth.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see NGC 7525 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

TONIGHT

Say where you are, and this line says when NGC 7525 is worth going out for.

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THROUGH AN EYEPIECE

] 150 MM TELESCOPE · 25 MM EYEPIECE
NE
FIELD 1.08°

NGC 7525 covers 54″ of sky against a of 1.08°, so at 48× it is a speck in a wide field.

48×
1.08
1.25
13.0
SIZE ON THE SKY
54
FILLS OF THE FIELD
1% of the width

NGC 7525 is not a point of light, so the limit above is the wrong one to hold it against: the same brightness spread over 54″ of sky is harder than a star of it, and goes first. Catalogued sizes are measured to a photographic contour, and the part an eye sees is usually smaller.

FIND IT ON THE SKY MAP ↗
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APPARENT PLACE

] EQUINOX J2026.7

Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.

RIGHT ASCENSION
DECLINATION
GRID TURNED SINCE
21.4
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-08-27 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for NGC 7525, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.

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CATALOG DATA

] 8 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Hubble type

WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES

Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.

Major axis
0.9
Minor axis
0.517011
60

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
Albert Marth

OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS

The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.

OpenNGC type code
GPair
Wikidata item
Q1167876

WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM

Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.

Morphology from
SIMBAD (quality D)
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 6 DESIGNATIONS
  • IRAS IRAS 23111+1344
  • IRAS IRAS F23111+1344
  • LEDA LEDA 70731
  • NGC NGC 7525
  • NGC NGC 7525-1
  • PGC PGC 70731
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 4 SERVICES

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. NGC 7525 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/ngc-7525
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_ngc-7525,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{NGC 7525}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/ngc-7525},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from OpenNGC.}
}

The values above were taken from OpenNGC — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue, and its licence is share-alike: the terms reach whatever you build from these rows.

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