NGC 810

NGC 810 is an unbarred^[4] elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus, approximately 360 million light-years from the Milky Way.^[3] It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1871.^[5]

ConstellationCetus

Right ascension02^h 05^m 28.563^s^[1]

Declination+13° 15′ 05.88″^[1]

Redshift0.02592^[2]

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NGC 810
SDSS image of NGC 810
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	02^h 05^m 28.563^s^[1]
Declination	+13° 15′ 05.88″^[1]
Redshift	0.02592^[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	7670 km/s^[2]
Distance	355.7 ± 25.0 Mly (109.06 ± 7.66 Mpc)^[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.4^[2]
Characteristics
Type	E5^[4]
Other designations
UGC 1583, MCG +02-06-026, PGC 7965^[2]

NGC 810 is currently in a merger event.^[4] It is interacting with the galaxy SDSS J020529.28+131503.5.^[6]

References

[1]
Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
[2]
"NGC 810". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
[3]
"Results for object NGC 0810 (NGC 810)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
[4]
García-Benito, R.; Zibetti, S.; Sánchez, S. F.; Husemann, B.; De Amorim, A. L.; Castillo-Morales, A.; Cid Fernandes, R.; Ellis, S. C.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Galbany, L.; Gil De Paz, A.; González Delgado, R. M.; Lacerda, E. A. D.; López-Fernandez, R.; De Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Lyubenova, M.; Marino, R. A.; Mast, D.; Mendoza, M. A.; Pérez, E.; Vale Asari, N.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Ascasibar, Y.; Bekeraitė, S.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K.; Bomans, D. J.; Cano-Díaz, M.; Catalán-Torrecilla, C.; et al. (2015). "CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey. III. Second public data release". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 576: A135. arXiv:1409.8302. Bibcode:2015A&A...576A.135G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425080. S2CID 118636619.
[5]
Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 810 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
[6]
"SDSS J020529.28+131503.5". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.

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