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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Sy2
Distance
5,730 light-years
Redshift
z = 0.019417
Coordinates
RA 21.1859° · Dec -38.1291°
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Key facts

Constellation
Sculptor
Right ascension
01 24 44.615
Declination
−38 ° 07 ′ 44.74 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5765 km/s
Distance
255 Mly (78.1 Mpc )
Type
S0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 534 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of Sculptor about 260 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1835.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 534” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.