Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 10 47.856
- Declination
- 28 ° 39 ′ 36.81 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8574 km/s
- Distance
- 409.6 Mly (125.57 Mpc )
- Type
- E2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 125.57
- Image
- NGC3552 NGC3553 NGC3554 - SDSS DR14.png
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- catalog code
- [LO95] 1108+289A
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-12-24
- galaxy morphological type
- E2
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 13.222
- Commons category
- NGC 3554
- right ascension
- 167.6994000
- declination
- 28.6602250
- redshift
- 0.029157
- radial velocity
- 8574
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3554 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in December 1827 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3554” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.