NGC 812

NGC 812 is a spiral galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation, an estimated 175 million light-years from the Milky Way.^[3] NGC 812 was discovered on December 11, 1876 by astronomer Édouard Stephan.^[5][6][4]

NGC 812
DSS image of NGC 812
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	02h 06m 51.497s[1]
Declination	+44° 34′ 22.48″[1]
Redshift	0.017469[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5191 km/s[2]
Distance	174.4 Mly (53.46 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	12.8[2]
Characteristics
Type	S pec[4]
Other designations
UGC 1598, MCG +07-05-014, PGC 8066[2]

Supernovae

Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 812:

• SN 2010jj (type IIn, mag. 17) was discovered by Doug Rich on 3 November 2010.^[7][8]
• SN 2020udy (type Iax[02cx-like], mag. 19.6) was discovered by Jakob Nordin and Daniel Perley on 24 September 2020.^[9]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)