Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 00 03 32.1264
- Declination
- −10 ° 44 ′ 40.833 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8865 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 409.9 ± 28.7 Mly (125.67 ± 8.80 Mpc )
- Type
- (R')SA0^0?
- Size
- ~158,900 ly (48.71 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.3′ × 1.3′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-ionization nuclear emission-line region
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 124
- Image
- NGC7808 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Frank Muller
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2422574280380383872
- redshift
- 0.029761
- apparent magnitude
- 12.359
- radial velocity
- 8745
- galaxy morphological type
- -2
- right ascension
- 0.88388251207300
- declination
- -10.74468876016130
- Commons category
- NGC 7808
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7808 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 8521 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 125.67 ± 8.80 Mpc (~410 million light-years). It was discovered by American astronomer Frank Muller in 1886.
NGC 7808 is an active Seyfert I galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7808” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.