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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