NGC 803

NGC 803 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 70 million light-years[2] from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.[5][6]

NGC 803
SDSS image of NGC 803
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAries
Right ascension02h 03m 44.701s
Declination+16° 01′ 51.46″
Redshift0.007002[1]
Helio radial velocity2092 km/s[1]
Distance70.7 Mly (21.68 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)12.41[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)13.03[3]
Characteristics
TypeSA(s)c: edge-on[4]
Other designations
UGC 1554, MCG+03-06-028, PGC 7849[1]

See also

References
  1. "NGC 803". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  2. Tully, 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. 50.
  3. "Search specification: NGC 803". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  4. "Results for object NGC 0803 (NGC 803)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 803 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 803". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  • Media related to NGC 803 at Wikimedia Commons


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