NGC 811

NGC 811 is an object in the New General Catalogue. It is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 700 million light-years from the Milky Way.^[3] It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886.^[4][5] However, it is usually misidentified as a different object, the spiral galaxy PGC 7905.^[6]

NGC 811
SDSS image of NGC 811 (PGC 7870)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	02h 04m 00.01284s[1]
Declination	−09° 06′ 21.4094″[1]
Redshift	0.04884[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	14285 km/s[2]
Distance	692.9 ± 48.5 Mly (212.44 ± 14.88 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	16.5[2]
Characteristics
Type	E[3]
Other designations
KUG 0201-093, PGC 7870[2]