NGC 822
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 02 06 39.13396
- Declination
- −41 ° 09 ′ 24.2724 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5305 km/s
- Distance
- 233.3 Mly (71.52 Mpc )
- Type
- E
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 71.52
- Image
- NGC 0822 DSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-05
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4957194598130134016
- redshift
- 0.017899
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- apparent magnitude
- 10.220
- right ascension
- 31.66305818358920
- declination
- -41.15674233679630
- radial velocity
- 5305
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 822
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 822 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Phoenix. It is estimated to be about 233 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 80,000 light-years. NGC 822 was discovered on September 5, 1834, by astronomer John Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 822” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.