Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.020034
- Coordinates
- RA 21.3001° · Dec -38.0945°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 25 12.02
- Declination
- −38 ° 21 ′ 15.87 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5946 km/s
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 × 1.1 arcmin
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 80.60
- Image
- NGC 544 NGC 546 legacy dr10.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5009592065271431424
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-10-23
- redshift
- 0.019987
- apparent magnitude
- 10.122
- right ascension
- 21.30008954488330
- declination
- -38.09446563567070
- radial velocity
- 5946
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 544
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 544 (also known as GC 320 or h 2411) is a faint, small, and round elliptical galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation. The galaxy was discovered by John Herschel on 23 October 1835 and its apparent size is 1.5 by 1.1 arc minutes. It is approximately 360 million light years away from Earth, it is similar to those of NGC 534, NGC 546 and NGC 549.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 544” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 29 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
- Polski
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0