Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 03 31.15
- Declination
- −09 ° 56 ′ 00.15 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3944 ± 9 km/s
- Distance
- 166 M ly
- Type
- Scd pec? HII
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 0.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0806 SDSS.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-11-01
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- catalog code
- LEDA 7835
- apparent magnitude
- 13.895
- radial velocity
- 3886
- galaxy morphological type
- 7
- redshift
- 0.013049
- right ascension
- 30.8798167
- declination
- -9.9333556
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 806
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 806 is a spiral galaxy approximately 166 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on November 1, 1886 with the 16" refractor at Warner Observatory.
Interaction with galaxy PGC 3100716
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 806” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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