Key facts
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Right ascension
- 00 48 20.9
- Declination
- −38 ° 14 ′ 04 ″
- Type
- S0
- Apparent size v
- 1.18' × 0.45'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Sculptor
- Image
- NGC 264 DECam.png
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4999962061398061952
- Commons category
- NGC 264
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-08-30
- redshift
- 0.016498
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- apparent magnitude
- 10.435
- right ascension
- 12.08729049561400
- declination
- -38.23438194120700
- radial velocity
- 4905
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 264 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on August 30, 1834 by John Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 264” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.