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NGC 57
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elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Right ascension
- 00 15 30.9132
- Declination
- +17 ° 19 ′ 42.307 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,440 ± 22 km/s
- Distance
- 243 Mly
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 2.2 ′ × 1.9 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Distance from Earth
- 73.31
- Image
- NGC57 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 57
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- [ZEH2003] RX J0015.5+1720 1
- declination
- 17.3283944
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-10-08
- redshift
- 0.018113
- apparent magnitude
- 10.824
- right ascension
- 3.8786375
- radial velocity
- 5381
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 57 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 8 October 1784.
SN 2010dq imaged on 3 September 2010
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 57” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.