Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 02 03 44.79408
- Declination
- +38 ° 15 ′ 31.6246 ″
- Redshift
- 0.019187 ± 0.000090
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,772 km/s
- Distance
- 174.4 Mly (53.46 Mpc )
- Type
- Sc
- Size
- 189.2 kly (58.01 kpc )
- Apparent size v
- 1.280 ′ × 0.461′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 60.1
- Image
- NGC 0801 DSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.019187
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 330988046894064384
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-09-20
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- apparent magnitude
- 9.512
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension
- 30.93664198963670
- declination
- 38.25878460850260
- radial velocity
- 5697
- Commons category
- NGC 801
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 801 is a spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus in the constellation Andromeda. It is estimated to be 174 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 174,400 light-years. The object was discovered on September 20, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 801” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.