NGC 811 | |
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SDSS image of NGC 811 (PGC 7870) | |
Observation data ( J2000 epoch) | |
Constellation | Cetus |
Right ascension | 02h 04m 00.01284s [1] |
Declination | −09° 06′ 21.4094″ [1] |
Redshift | 0.04884 [2] |
Heliocentric radial velocity | 14285 km/s [2] |
Distance | 692.9 ± 48.5 Mly (212.44 ± 14.88 Mpc) [3] |
Apparent magnitude (B) | 16.5 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Type | E [3] |
Other designations | |
KUG 0201-093, PGC 7870 [2] |
NGC 811 is an object in the New General Catalogue. It is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 700 million light-years from the Milky Way. [3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886. [4] [5] However, it is usually misidentified as a different object, the spiral galaxy PGC 7905. [6]
NGC 811 | |
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SDSS image of NGC 811 (PGC 7870) | |
Observation data ( J2000 epoch) | |
Constellation | Cetus |
Right ascension | 02h 04m 00.01284s [1] |
Declination | −09° 06′ 21.4094″ [1] |
Redshift | 0.04884 [2] |
Heliocentric radial velocity | 14285 km/s [2] |
Distance | 692.9 ± 48.5 Mly (212.44 ± 14.88 Mpc) [3] |
Apparent magnitude (B) | 16.5 [2] |
Characteristics | |
Type | E [3] |
Other designations | |
KUG 0201-093, PGC 7870 [2] |
NGC 811 is an object in the New General Catalogue. It is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 700 million light-years from the Milky Way. [3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886. [4] [5] However, it is usually misidentified as a different object, the spiral galaxy PGC 7905. [6]