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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
G
Redshift
z = 0.03015844800133438
Morphology
E
Coordinates
RA 139.1828° · Dec 18.9546°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cancer
Right ascension
09 16 43.86892
Declination
+18 ° 57 ′ 16.4866 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
8905 km/s
Distance
411.1 Mly (126.04 Mpc )
Type
E-SB0

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cancer
Distance from Earth
126.04
Image
NGC 2802 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 635678047689525632
galaxy morphological type
E
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1784-03-21
apparent magnitude
12.917
Commons category
NGC 2803
right ascension
139.18278715605420
declination
18.95457962126350
radial velocity
8905
redshift
0.029704
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2803, also known as PCG 26181, is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the zodiac constellation Cancer. It was discovered March 21, 1784, by William Herschel. It is interacting with NGC 2802.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 2803: SN 2017ilf (type Ia, mag. 18).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2803” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.