Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 01 25 07.1
- Declination
- −38 ° 00 ′ 28 ″
- Distance
- 259.95 Mly (79.700 Mpc )
- Type
- (R')SB(s)a
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Distance from Earth
- 83.06
- Image
- NGC 0549 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 199
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-11-29
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.720
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb:
- redshift
- 0.020601
- right ascension
- 21.3686500
- declination
- -38.2673750
- radial velocity
- 6151
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 549
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 549 is a barred spiral galaxy in the southern constellation Sculptor. It was discovered by British astronomer John Frederick William Herschel on November 29, 1837.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q181039” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.