Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 02 02 11.833
- Declination
- −00 ° 07 ′ 49.58 ″
- Distance
- 300 million ly
- Type
- SA(rs)c
- Apparent size v
- 1.04 ′ × 0.68 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0800 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.019847
- catalog code
- LEDA 7740
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1885-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- 4
- apparent magnitude
- 11.036
- Commons category
- NGC 800
- right ascension
- 30.54933733205320
- declination
- -0.13042219452170
- radial velocity
- 5898
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 800, also called UGC 1526 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus. It was first observed by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1885.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1039253” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.