Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 27 08.90558
- Declination
- −20 ° 02 ′ 11.7187 ″
- Redshift
- 0.033 700 ± 0.000 213
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 10,103 ± 89 km/s
- Type
- SB(s)0:
- Apparent size v
- 2.5 × 2.0 arcmin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Image
- NGC 0540 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2353835012434805376
- discoverer or inventor
- Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa:
- apparent magnitude
- 11.456
- Commons category
- NGC 540
- right ascension
- 21.78710659661830
- declination
- -20.03658852876330
- radial velocity
- 10103
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 540 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be 451 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 120,000 light years. The object was discovered on October 15, 1885, by the American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth.
See also
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