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
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- 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.
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