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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Sy1
Distance
26,888 light-years
Redshift
z = 0.014754
Coordinates
RA 31.8336° · Dec -25.4419°
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Key facts

Constellation
Fornax
Right ascension
02 07 20.07002
Declination
−25 ° 26 ′ 30.9656 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4391 km/s
Distance
194.2 Mly (59.54 Mpc )
Type
SA0 (r):
Apparent size v
1.7 ′ × 1.2 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Fornax
Distance from Earth
59.54
Image
NGC 0823 DSS.jpg
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right ascension
31.83362510225920
catalog code
Gaia DR2 5121231974828836608
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1830-10-14
galaxy morphological type
E-S0
redshift
0.014780
apparent magnitude
9.941
declination
-25.44193487602600
radial velocity
4391
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 823
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 823, also known as IC 1782, is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Fornax. It is estimated to be 194 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light years. NGC 823 was discovered on October 14, 1830, by astronomer John Herschel.

SN 2022abid (ZTF22abyelas) a Type Ia supernova from an exploding white dwarf was discovered on 23 November 2022.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 823” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.