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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.020034
Coordinates
RA 21.3001° · Dec -38.0945°
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Key facts

Constellation
Sculptor
Right ascension
01 25 12.02
Declination
−38 ° 21 ′ 15.87 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5946 km/s
Apparent size v
1.5 × 1.1 arcmin

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 544 (also known as GC 320 or h 2411) is a faint, small, and round elliptical galaxy located in the Sculptor constellation. The galaxy was discovered by John Herschel on 23 October 1835 and its apparent size is 1.5 by 1.1 arc minutes. It is approximately 360 million light years away from Earth, it is similar to those of NGC 534, NGC 546 and NGC 549.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 544” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.