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Vinony's link graph records 869 inbound references to NGC 803, and connects out to list of NGC objects (1–1000), epoch and NGC 241.

It is catalogued under topics including Aries (constellation), NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Aries
Right ascension
02 03 44.701
Declination
+16 ° 01 ′ 51.46 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
2092 km/s
Distance
70.7 Mly (21.68 Mpc )
Type
SA(s)c: edge-on

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Aries
Distance from Earth
20
Image
NGC803 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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Commons category
NGC 803
time of discovery or invention
1784-10-15
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
catalog code
LEDA 7849
redshift
0.007008
galaxy morphological type
Sc
apparent magnitude
9.831
right ascension
30.9362542
declination
16.0309611
radial velocity
2092
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 803 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 70 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 803” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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