| NGC 803 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 803 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Aries |
| Right ascension | 02h 03m 44.701s |
| Declination | +16° 01′ 51.46″ |
| Redshift | 0.007002[1] |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 2092 km/s[1] |
| Distance | 70.7 Mly (21.68 Mpc)[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.41[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.03[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SA(s)c: edge-on[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1554, MCG +03-06-028, PGC 7849[1] | |
NGC 803 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 70 million light-years[2] from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.[5][6]
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- ^ a b Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. S2CID 250737862. 50.
- ^ a b "Search specification: NGC 803". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ "Results for object NGC 0803 (NGC 803)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 803 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 803". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.