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
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.
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