Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 08 34.40
- Declination
- +29 ° 14 ′ 03.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6576 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 302 M ly
- Type
- S?
- Apparent size v
- 0.6 x 0.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Image
- NGC 0819 SDSS.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- 3
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-20
- catalog code
- LEDA 8174
- redshift
- 0.021935
- apparent magnitude
- 12.988
- Commons category
- NGC 819
- right ascension
- 32.1432042
- declination
- 29.2340556
- radial velocity
- 6496
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 819 is a spiral galaxy approximately 302 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Triangulum. It forms a visual pair with the galaxy NGC 816 [fr] 5.7' WNW.
Discovery
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1039447” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.