Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.004954023092925697
- Coordinates
- RA 29.7748° · Dec -67.8700°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydrus
- Right ascension
- 01 59 05.96016
- Declination
- −67 ° 52 ′ 12.1264 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1481.5 km/s
- Distance
- 68.0 ± 4.8 Mly (20.84 ± 1.46 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB0 (s) pec:
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- NGC 0802 DSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-11-02
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4697446314781300224
- apparent magnitude
- 11.354
- redshift
- 0.005020
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- right ascension
- 29.77483398023460
- declination
- -67.87003509910460
- radial velocity
- 1476
- Commons category
- NGC 802
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 802 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydrus. It is about 68 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 20,000 light years. NGC 802 was discovered on November 2, 1834 by the British astronomer John Herschel.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 802” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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