Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.017639
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 31.0088° · Dec 30.8330°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 04 02.106
- Declination
- +30 ° 49 ′ 58.13 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5241 km/s
- Distance
- 231.3 Mly (70.92 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 70.92
- Image
- NGC 0804 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-09-07
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- catalog code
- LEDA 7873
- redshift
- 0.017572
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- apparent magnitude
- 10.408
- Commons category
- NGC 804
- right ascension
- 31.0087750
- declination
- 30.8328139
- radial velocity
- 5241
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 804 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Triangulum constellation about 231 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1885. This galaxy was also observed by the French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on December 24, 1897, and it has been added to the Index Catalogue under the symbol IC 1773.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 804” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.