NGC 834

NGC 834 is a spiral galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation. It is estimated to be 160 million light-years away from the Milky Way galaxy and has a diameter of about 65,000 light-years. The object was discovered on September 21, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel.[5][6]

NGC 801
NGC 834
Observation data
Right ascension 02h 11m 01.277s[1]
Declination+37° 39′ 59.00″[1]
Helio radial velocity4,600[2]
Distance (comoving)159.8 Mly (48.98 Mpc)[2]
Characteristics
TypeS?[3]
Apparent size (V)0.810′ × 0.454′[1]
References: UGC 1672[4]

References
  1. Skrutskie, M. F.; et al. (February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708.
  2. Tully, R. Brent; et al. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 50. arXiv:1605.01765. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50.
  3. de Vaucouleurs, G.; et al. (1991). "Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies". 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "NGC 834". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 834". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  6. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 834 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2019-12-09.



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