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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.