Astronomy:NGC 5473

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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
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NGC5473 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 5473
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationUrsa Major
Right ascension 14h 04m 43.22677s[1]
Declination+54° 53′ 33.5103″[1]
Redshift0.006558[2]
Helio radial velocity1960 km/s[2]
Distance85 Mly (26.2 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)11.47[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)12.37[4]
Characteristics
TypeSAB0−(s):[5]
Other designations
UGC 9011, MCG+09-23-031, PGC 50191[2]

NGC 5473 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered on April 14, 1789, by the astronomer William Herschel.[6] Located roughly 85 million light-years (26.2 megaparsecs) away, it is part of a small galaxy group including NGC 5475 and NGC 5485.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 5473". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+5473. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hudson, Michael J.; Robison, Bailey (2018). "The correlation between the sizes of globular cluster systems and their host dark matter haloes". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477 (3): 3869–3885. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty844. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 5473". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%205473. Retrieved 2021-05-06. 
  5. ↑ "Results for object NGC 5473 (NGC 5473)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%205473&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1. Retrieved 2021-05-06. 
  6. ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 5450 - 5499". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc54a.htm#5473. Retrieved 2021-05-06. 

External links

Coordinates: Sky map 14h 04m 43.22677s, +54° 53′ 33.5103″




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