Messier 58
| Galaxy Messier 58 |
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| The galaxy Messier 58 recorded with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
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| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 37 m 43.5 s |
| declination | + 11 ° 49 ′ 05 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) b; LINER Sy1.9 |
| Brightness (visual) | 9.6 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 10.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 6 ′ × 4.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 95 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo Galaxy Clusters |
| Redshift | 0.005060 ± 0.000002 |
| Radial velocity | (1517 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(66 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (20.1 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Charles Messier |
| Discovery date | April 15, 1779 |
| Catalog names | |
| M 58 • NGC 4579 • UGC 7796 • PGC 42168 • CGCG 70-197 • MCG + 2-32-160 • IRAS 12351 + 1205 • 2MASX J12374359 + 1149051 • VCC 1727 • GC 3121 • h 1368 • | |
Messier 58 (also known as NGC 4579 ) is a 9.6 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy with an area of 6.0 '× 4.8' in the constellation Virgo . Most sources assume that M58 is a bar-spiral galaxy of type SBb in the Hubble sequence . Messier 58 was discovered on April 15, 1779 by the French astronomer Charles Messier .
Detail in visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope
See also
Web links
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