Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 27 48.2007
- Declination
- −01 ° 52 ′ 46.006 ″
- Distance
- 266 Mly
- Type
- E
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 89.29
- Image
- NGC 0564 SDSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 5702
- right ascension
- 21.9509458
- declination
- -1.8795917
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- LEDA 5455
- Commons category
- NGC 564
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-10-01
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.019203
- apparent magnitude
- 9.604
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 564 is a large elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Cetus. NGC 564 was discovered by the German-British astronomer William Herschel on October 1, 1785.
NGC 545 and Abell 194 Group
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q578763” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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