Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 02 03 44.701
- Declination
- +16 ° 01 ′ 51.46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2092 km/s
- Distance
- 70.7 Mly (21.68 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)c: edge-on
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Aries
- Distance from Earth
- 20
- Image
- NGC803 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 803
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-15
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- LEDA 7849
- redshift
- 0.007008
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- apparent magnitude
- 9.831
- right ascension
- 30.9362542
- declination
- 16.0309611
- radial velocity
- 2092
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 803 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 70 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1784.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 803” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.