Astronomy:NGC 834

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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
NGC 801
NGC 0834 DSS.jpg
NGC 834
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAndromeda
Right ascension 02h 11m 01.277s[1]
Declination+37° 39′ 59.00″[1]
Helio radial velocity4,600[2]
Distance159.8 Mly (48.98 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)13.2[3]
Characteristics
TypeS?[4]
Apparent size (V)0.810 × 0.454′[1]
Other designations
UGC 1672, MCG+06-05-099, PGC 8352[3]

NGC 834 is a spiral galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation. It is estimated to be 160 million light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy and has a diameter of about 65,000[citation needed] light-years. The object was discovered on September 21, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel.[5][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode2006AJ....131.1163S. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tully, R. Brent et al. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal 152 (2): 50. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. Bibcode2016AJ....152...50T. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "NGC 834". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+834. 
  4. de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991). Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies. 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag. 
  5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 834". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC834. 
  6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 834 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC834.