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
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- 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
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