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galaxy

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.