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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.01286
Coordinates
RA 32.2445° · Dec -7.7668°
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Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
02 08 58.67851
Declination
−07 ° 46 ′ 00.4978 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4017 km/s
Distance
167.8 Mly (51.44 Mpc )
Type
SB0 ?

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
51.44
Image
NGC 0830 SDSS.jpg
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discoverer or inventor
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
time of discovery or invention
1865-09-23
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2487195980358232064
redshift
0.012846
galaxy morphological type
-3
apparent magnitude
12.037
Commons category
NGC 830
right ascension
32.24449380325820
declination
-7.76680493482210
radial velocity
3950
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 830 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be about 170 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 70,000 light years. It was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on 23 September 1865.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 830” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.