NGC 7769


NGC 7769 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 3855 ± 25 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 56.85 ± 4 Mpc. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 18 September 1784.
The galaxies NGC 7769, together with NGC 7770 and NGC 7771, are listed together as Holm 820 in Erik Holmberg's A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems, published in 1937. NGC 7769 also is listed as part of the five-member NGC 7771 Group, which contains the 3 galaxies from Holm 820, NGC 7786, and UGC 12828.
NGC 7769 is a LINER galaxy, i.e. it has a type of nucleus that is defined by its spectral line emission which has weakly ionized or neutral atoms, while the spectral line emission from strongly ionized atoms is relatively weak.

Supernovae

Three supernovae have been observed in NGC 7769:SN 2019iex was discovered by the Searches After Gravitational-waves using ARizona Observatories project on 26 June 2019.SN 2022mxv was discovered by ATLAS on 18 June 2022.SN 2022aedu was discovered by Kōichi Itagaki on 31 December 2022.