Key facts
- Constellation
- Crater
- Right ascension
- 11 14 41.97
- Declination
- −23 ° 43 ′ 39.58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3494 km/s
- Distance
- 150,000,000 light-years (46,000,000 pc)
- Type
- S0
- Notable features
- Elliptical galaxy in making
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Crater
- Image
- NGC 3597.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 3597
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3537691104889908608
- right ascension
- 168.67490790563440
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-03-21
- apparent magnitude
- 9.790
- declination
- -23.72766307574030
- radial velocity
- 3494
- redshift
- 0.011725
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
The location of NGC 3597 (circled in red) NGC 3597 is a galaxy located approximately 150 million light-years away in the constellation of Crater. It was discovered by John Herschel on March 21, 1835.
Characteristics
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