NGC 803
Appearance
NGC 803 | |
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Observation data (J2000epoch) | |
Constellation | Aries |
Right ascension | 02h03m44.701s |
Declination | +16° 01′ 51.46″ |
Redshift | 0.007002[1] |
Heliocentric radial velocity | 2092 km/s[1] |
Distance | 70.7Mly(21.68Mpc)[2] |
Apparent magnitude(V) | 12.41[3] |
Apparent magnitude(B) | 13.03[3] |
Characteristics | |
Type | SA(s)c: edge-on[4] |
Other designations | |
UGC1554,MCG+03-06-028,PGC7849[1] |
NGC 803is aspiral galaxylocated in theconstellation Ariesabout 70 millionlight-years[2]from theMilky Way.It was discovered by the German–BritishastronomerWilliam Herschelin 1784.[5][6]
See also
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^abc"NGC 803".SIMBAD.Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.Retrieved2020-05-24.
- ^abTully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016)."Cosmicflows-3".The Astronomical Journal.152(2): 21.arXiv:1605.01765.Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T.doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50.S2CID250737862.50.
- ^ab"Search specification: NGC 803".HyperLeda.Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.Retrieved2020-05-24.
- ^"Results for object NGC 0803 (NGC 803)".NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.California Institute of Technology.Retrieved2020-05-24.
- ^Ford, Dominic."The galaxy NGC 803 - In-The-Sky.org".in-the-sky.org.Retrieved2020-03-24.
- ^"Revised NGC Data for NGC 803".spider.seds.org.Retrieved2020-03-24.
External links
[edit]- Media related toNGC 803at Wikimedia Commons