Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- AG?
- Redshift
- z = 0.01466424577423342
- Morphology
- Sc
- Coordinates
- RA 291.8991° · Dec 54.3729°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Right ascension
- 19 27 35.8
- Declination
- +54 ° 22 ′ 22 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4361 +/- 6 km/s
- Distance
- 163.7 ± 22.5 M ly , (50.2 ± 6.9 M pc )
- Type
- SAcd
- Apparent size v
- 1.3' × 0.7'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Distance from Earth
- 44.26
- Image
- NGC 6801 color cutout rings.v3.skycell.2394.058.stk.3702885.3707397.3811781.unconv.fits sci.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-08-05
- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 1556
- apparent magnitude
- 10.391
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- redshift
- 0.014513
- right ascension
- 291.8991375
- declination
- 54.3729056
- radial velocity
- 4319
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6801
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6801 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on August 5, 1886.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6801” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.