NGC 811

NGC 811
SDSS image of NGC 811 (PGC 7870)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	02^h 04^m 00.01284^s[1]
Declination	−09° 06′ 21.4094″[1]
Redshift	0.04884[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	14285 km/s[2]
Distance	692.9 ± 48.5 Mly (212.44 ± 14.88 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	16.5[2]
Characteristics
Type	E[3]
Other designations
KUG 0201-093, PGC 7870[2]

NGC 811 is an object in the New General Catalogue. It is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 700 million light-years from the Milky Way.^[3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.^[4][5] However, it is usually misidentified as a different object, the spiral galaxy PGC 7905.^[6]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051.
2. "LEDA 7870". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
3. "Results for object KUG 0201-093 (PGC 7870)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
4. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 811 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 811". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
6. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 800 - 849". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2020-05-24.

External links

• Media related to NGC 811 at Wikimedia Commons