NGC 2800

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NGC 2800
NGC2800 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 2800
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension 09h 18m 35.164s [1]
Declination +52° 30′ 52.49″ [1]
Redshift 0.025338 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity 7500 km/s [2]
Distance 374.4 ± 26.3  Mly (114.80 ± 8.05  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (B)14.0 [2]
Characteristics
Type E [3]
Other designations
UGC 4920, MCG +09-15-117, PGC 26302 [2]

NGC 2800, also known as PGC 26302, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered February 17, 1831 by William Herschel. [4]

References

  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.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi: 10.1086/498708 . ISSN   0004-6256. S2CID   18913331.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "NGC 2800". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  3. 1 2 "Results for object NGC 2800 (NGC 2800)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  4. ↑ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 2800 - 2849".


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