NGC 568

galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type: EmG
Distance: 4,926 light-years
Redshift: z = 0.018823
Coordinates: RA 21.9875° · Dec -35.7176°

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Key facts

Constellation: Sculptor
Right ascension: 01 27 57.0
Declination: −35 ° 43 ′ 03 ″
Redshift: 0.018823±0.000133
Heliocentric radial velocity: 5,679 km/s
Distance: 266 million light-year , 82.41 Mpc
Type: SA0 pec?

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: lenticular galaxy
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance from Earth: 84.68
Image: NGC 0568 DSS.jpg

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galaxy morphological type: S0
catalog code: Gaia DR2 5013264743345545088
radial velocity: 5600
discoverer or inventor: John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention: 1837-11-29
redshift: 0.018943
apparent magnitude: 9.576
right ascension: 21.98752747832020
declination: -35.71762801176500
epoch: J2000.0
Commons category: NGC 568

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 568, also commonly referred as IC 1709 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Sculptor. The galaxy is 266 million light-years from Earth and was discovered by John Herschel on November 29, 1837, and Lewis Swift, an American astronomer who listed it and gave it the name IC 1709 on September 4, 1897.

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