Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.015217
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 31.1233° · Dec 28.8123°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 04 29.57
- Declination
- +28 ° 48 ′ 44.37 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4546 ± 31 km/s
- Distance
- 194 M ly
- Type
- SB0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1 x 0.8
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 61.17
- Image
- NGC 0805 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.015217
- declination
- 28.81231628128630
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-26
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- radial velocity
- 4527
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 299920383778250752
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 10.449
- Commons category
- NGC 805
- right ascension
- 31.12329058025410
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 805 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 194 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Triangulum. It was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on September 26, 1864, with the 11-inch refractor at Copenhagen.
NGC 805 (SDSS)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 805” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.