Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 08 24.97482
- Declination
- +14 ° 20 ′ 58.5388 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4395 km/s
- Distance
- 213.5 Mly (65.46 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 820 Group (LGG 48)
- Type
- Sb
- Size
- ~82,900 ly (25.42 kpc ) (estimated)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Aries
- Distance from Earth
- 64.03
- Image
- NGC 0820 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 4395
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 77444792992754304
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-09-07
- apparent magnitude
- 11.958
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- Commons category
- NGC 820
- right ascension
- 32.10406176621480
- declination
- 14.34959412125230
- redshift
- 0.01481
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 820 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 210 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 7 September 1828.
NGC 820 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 820” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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