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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
G
Redshift
z = 0.025338
Morphology
SA
Coordinates
RA 139.6465° · Dec 52.5146°
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Key facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Right ascension
09 18 35.164
Declination
+52 ° 30 ′ 52.49 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7500 km/s
Distance
374.4 ± 26.3 Mly (114.80 ± 8.05 Mpc )
Type
E

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2800, also known as PGC 26302, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered February 17, 1831 by William Herschel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2800” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.