NGC 820

NGC 820 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 210 million light-years from the Milky Way.^[3] It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel in 1828.^[4][5][6][7]

NGC 820
SDSS image of NGC 820
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Aries
Right ascension	02h 08m 24.97482s[1]
Declination	+14° 20′ 58.5388″[1]
Redshift	0.01477[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	4395 km/s[2]
Distance	213.5 Mly (65.46 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.7[2]
Characteristics
Type	Sb[2]
Other designations
UGC 1629, MCG +02-06-036, PGC 8165[2]

One supernova has been observed in NGC 820: SN 2002ea (type IIn, mag. 17.7).^[8]

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. "NGC 820". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
3. Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. S2CID 250737862. 50.
4. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 820 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
5. Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 820 - Spiral Galaxy in Aries Constellation". Telescopius. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
6. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
7. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 820". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
8. Transient Name Server entry for SN 2002ea. Retrieved 2 April 2023.

External links

• Media related to NGC 820 at Wikimedia Commons