Right ascension 00 15 07.6 Redshift 0.017802 Type SB(r)a Constellation Cetus | Declination 00° 07′ 58″ Helio radial velocity 5335 km/s Magnitude 13.7 Apparent magnitude (V) 13.7 | |
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Distance 240,000,000 ly (78,000,000 Parsecs) Similar NGC 73, NGC 59, NGC 77, NGC 47, NGC 50 | ||
NGC 54 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1886, and he defined it as "very faint, pretty small, round." The galaxy is 90,000 light years in diameter, making it slightly smaller than the Milky Way.
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