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NGC 801

galaxy

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Vinony's link graph records 983 inbound references to NGC 801, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), NGC 241 and NGC 945.

It sits within the topics Andromeda (constellation), NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

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Key facts

Constellation: Andromeda
Right ascension: 02 03 44.79408
Declination: +38 ° 15 ′ 31.6246 ″
Redshift: 0.019187 ± 0.000090
Heliocentric radial velocity: 5,772 km/s
Distance: 174.4 Mly (53.46 Mpc )
Type: Sc
Size: 189.2 kly (58.01 kpc )
Apparent size v: 1.280 ′ × 0.461′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: spiral galaxy
Constellation: Andromeda
Distance from Earth: 60.1
Image: NGC 0801 DSS.jpg

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redshift: 0.019187
galaxy morphological type: Sc
catalog code: Gaia DR2 330988046894064384
time of discovery or invention: 1885-09-20
discoverer or inventor: Lewis A. Swift
apparent magnitude: 9.512
epoch: J2000.0
right ascension: 30.93664198963670
declination: 38.25878460850260
radial velocity: 5697
Commons category: NGC 801

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 801 is a spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus in the constellation Andromeda. It is estimated to be 174 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 174,400 light-years. The object was discovered on September 20, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 801” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.