NGC 823

galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 823 is referenced by 868 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Fornax, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and HD 20781.

It sits within the topics Fornax, IC objects and NGC objects.

Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type: Sy1
Distance: 26,888 light-years
Redshift: z = 0.014754
Coordinates: RA 31.8336° · Dec -25.4419°

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Key facts

Constellation: Fornax
Right ascension: 02 07 20.07002
Declination: −25 ° 26 ′ 30.9656 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 4391 km/s
Distance: 194.2 Mly (59.54 Mpc )
Type: SA0 (r):
Apparent size v: 1.7 ′ × 1.2 ′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: lenticular galaxy
Constellation: Fornax
Distance from Earth: 59.54
Image: NGC 0823 DSS.jpg

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right ascension: 31.83362510225920
catalog code: Gaia DR2 5121231974828836608
discoverer or inventor: John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention: 1830-10-14
galaxy morphological type: E-S0
redshift: 0.014780
apparent magnitude: 9.941
declination: -25.44193487602600
radial velocity: 4391
epoch: J2000.0
Commons category: NGC 823

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 823, also known as IC 1782, is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Fornax. It is estimated to be 194 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 100,000 light years. NGC 823 was discovered on October 14, 1830, by astronomer John Herschel.

SN 2022abid (ZTF22abyelas) a Type Ia supernova from an exploding white dwarf was discovered on 23 November 2022.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 823” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.