NGC 802

Short description: Lenticular galaxy in the constrellation Hydrus

NGC 802

legacy surveys image of NGC 802

Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation| Hydrus
Right ascension|  01h 59m 05.96016s
Declination| −67° 52′ 12.1264″
Redshift| 0.004954[1]
Helio radial velocity| 1481.5 km/s[1]
Distance| 68.0 ± 4.8 Mly (20.84 ± 1.46 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)| 14.17[1]
Characteristics
Type| SAB0+(s) pec:[2]
Other designations
PGC 7505[1]

NGC 802 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydrus. It is about 68 million light-years from the Milky Way[2] and has a diameter of about 20,000 light years. NGC 802 was discovered on November 2, 1834 by the British astronomer John Herschel.[3][4][5]

## See also

* List of NGC objects (1–1000)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "NGC 802". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+802.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Results for object NGC 0802 (NGC 802)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC 802&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
3. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 802 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC802.
4. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+802&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES.
5. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 802". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC 802.

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* Astronomical catalog
* List of NGC objects

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Hydrus constellation

Stars (list)|

| Bayer|

* α
* β
* γ
* δ
* ε
* ζ
* η1
* η2
* θ
* ι
* κ
* λ
* μ
* ν
* π1
* π2
* σ
* τ1
* τ2

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Variable|

* VW
* WX
* BL
* BN
* BT
* CN
* CT

HR|

* 58
* 1237
* 87
* 420
* 460
* 467
* 468
* 505
* 571
* 584
* 600
* 959
* 1053
* 1064

HD|

* 10180
* 11944
* 20003

Other|

* AB8
* SMSS J031300.36−670839.3
* WISEPC J014807.25−720258.7

Star clusters|

| Open|

* NGC 602
* NGC 643
* NGC 796
* NGC 1557

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Globular|

* NGC 1466
* NGC 1629

Galaxies|

| NGC|

* 643B
* 643C
* 646
* 802
* 813
* 1473
* 1511

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Other|

* KKs 3
* PGC 6240

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