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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
EmG
Distance
4,926 light-years
Redshift
z = 0.018823
Coordinates
RA 21.9875° · Dec -35.7176°
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Key facts

Constellation
Sculptor
Right ascension
01 27 57.0
Declination
−35 ° 43 ′ 03 ″
Redshift
0.018823±0.000133
Heliocentric radial velocity
5,679 km/s
Distance
266 million light-year , 82.41 Mpc
Type
SA0 pec?

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 568, also commonly referred as IC 1709 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sculptor. The galaxy is 266 million light-years from Earth and was discovered by John Herschel on November 29, 1837, and Lewis Swift, an American astronomer who listed it and gave it the name IC 1709 on September 4, 1897.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 568” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.