NGC 824
| Galaxy NGC 824 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 06 m 53.2 s |
| declination | -36 ° 27 ′ 11 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b / Sy2 / HII? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 26 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019380 +/- 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 5810 +/- 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(256 ± 18) · 10 6 ly (78.6 ± 5.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | November 29, 1837 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 824 • PGC 8068 • ESO 354-037 • MCG -06-05-028 • 2MASX J02065327-3627113 • SGC 020445-3641.4 • LEDA 8068 • LDCE 142 NED001 | |
NGC 824 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 256 million light years from the Milky Way and about 105,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered by John Herschel on November 29, 1837 .