NGC 548

NGC 548, also occasionally referred to as PGC 5326 or UGC 1010, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus.^[2] It is located approximately 244 million light-years from the Solar System^[4] and was discovered on 2 November 1867 by American astronomer George Mary Searle.^[6]

NGC 548
SDSS view of NGC 548
Observation data (J2000[1] epoch)
Constellation	Cetus[2]
Right ascension	01h 26m 02.5s[3]
Declination	−01° 13′ 32″[3]
Redshift	0.01802 ± 0.00001[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	(5354 ± 3) km/s[1]
Distance	244 Mly[4]
Apparent magnitude (V)	13.7[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	14.7[2]
Characteristics
Type	E[2]
Apparent size (V)	0.8' × 0.5'[2]
Other designations
PGC 5326, UGC 1010, MGC +00-04-141, 2MASS J01260251-0113324 [1][5]

Observation history

Searle discovered NGC 548 at Harvard Observatory using a 15" Merz refractor telescope. His given micrometric position also matches UGC 1010 and PGC 5326.^[6]

See also

• Elliptical galaxy
• List of NGC objects (1–1000)
• Cetus