NGC 811

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NGC 811
NGC811 (PGC7870) - SDSS DR14.png
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]

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  1. 1 2 Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616. A1. arXiv: 1804.09365 . Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 .
  2. 1 2 3 4 "LEDA 7870". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  3. 1 2 3 "Results for object KUG 0201-093 (PGC 7870)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  4. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 811 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  5. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 811". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  6. ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 800 - 849". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2020-05-24.


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