Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.015463494129240418
- Morphology
- Sbc
- Coordinates
- RA 32.7553° · Dec 37.6664°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 02 11 01.277
- Declination
- +37 ° 39 ′ 59.00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,600
- Distance
- 159.8 Mly (48.98 Mpc )
- Type
- S?
- Apparent size v
- 0.810 ′ × 0.454′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 62.20
- Image
- NGC 0834 DSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- radial velocity
- 4638
- catalog code
- GB6 B0207+3726
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-09-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.745
- redshift
- 0.015324
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- right ascension
- 32.7553208
- declination
- 37.6663889
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 834
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 834 is a spiral galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation. It is estimated to be 160 million light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy and has a diameter of about 65,000 light-years. The object was discovered on September 21, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 834” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.