Astronomy:NGC 803
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries
| NGC 803 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 803 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Aries |
| Right ascension | 02h 03m 44.701s |
| Declination | +16° 01′ 51.46″ |
| Redshift | 0.007002[1] |
| Helio radial velocity | 2092 km/s[1] |
| Distance | 70.7 Mly (21.68 Mpc)[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.41[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.03[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SA(s)c: edge-on[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1554, MCG+03-06-028, PGC 7849[1] | |
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]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "NGC 803". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+803.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 21. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. 50. Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...50T.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Search specification: NGC 803". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20803.
- ↑ "Results for object NGC 0803 (NGC 803)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20803&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 803 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=841.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 803". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC803.
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