NGC 5412

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Galaxy
NGC 5412
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Constellation Little Bear
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 57 m 13.5 s
declination + 73 ° 37 ′ 00 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0-  
Brightness  (visual) 13.9 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 14.9 mag
Angular expansion 1.2 ′ × 1.0 ′
Position angle 20 °
Surface brightness 14.2 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.023796 +/- 0.000167  
Radial velocity 7134 +/- 50 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(326 ± 23)  x  10 6  ly
(99.8 ± 7.0)  Mpc 
history
discovery Lewis Swift
Discovery date June 18, 1884
Catalog names
NGC  5412 • UGC  8905 • PGC  49644 • CGCG  336-033 •

NGC 5412 is a 13.9 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Ursa Minor . It is an estimated 326 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 18, 1884 .

Web links

  • NGC 5412. SIMBAD, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  • NGC 5412. DSO Browser, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  • Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5412. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 1, 2016 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 5412
  3. Seligman