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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
02 05 28.563
Declination
+13 ° 15 ′ 05.88 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7670 km/s
Distance
355.7 ± 25.0 Mly (109.06 ± 7.66 Mpc )
Type
E5

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Aries
Distance from Earth
110
Image
NGC810 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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apparent magnitude
11.852
time of discovery or invention
1871-12-11
discoverer or inventor
Édouard Stephan
catalog code
LEDA 7965
galaxy morphological type
E5A(x)
right ascension
31.3690130
declination
13.2516320
radial velocity
7670
redshift
0.025568
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 810
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 810 is an unbarred elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus, approximately 360 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1871.

NGC 810 is currently in a merger event. It is interacting with the galaxy SDSS J020529.28+131503.5.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 810” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.