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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Cetus
Right ascension
01 26 02.5
Declination
−01 ° 13 ′ 32 ″
Redshift
0.01802 ± 0.00001
Heliocentric radial velocity
(5354 ± 3) km/s
Distance
244 Mly
Type
E
Apparent size v
0.8' × 0.5'

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Cetus
Distance from Earth
84.72
Image
NGC 0548 SDSS.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
E
discoverer or inventor
George Mary Searle
catalog code
Gaia DR2 2485789464468221184
time of discovery or invention
1867-11-02
apparent magnitude
12.935
redshift
0.018076
Commons category
NGC 548
right ascension
21.51047715853140
declination
-1.22561380085380
radial velocity
5354
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 548, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5326 or UGC 1010, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is located approximately 244 million light-years from the Solar System and was discovered on 2 November 1867 by American astronomer George Mary Searle.

Observation history

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 548” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.