Astronomy:NGC 834
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Short description: Spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
NGC 801 | |
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![]() NGC 834 | |
Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
Constellation | Andromeda |
Right ascension | 02h 11m 01.277s[1] |
Declination | +37° 39′ 59.00″[1] |
Helio radial velocity | 4,600[2] |
Distance | 159.8 Mly (48.98 Mpc)[2] |
Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.2[3] |
Characteristics | |
Type | S?[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
- ↑ 1.0 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. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2016AJ....152...50T.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NGC 834". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+834.
- ↑ de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991). Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies. 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 834". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC834.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 834 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC834.
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