NGC 5448
| Galaxy NGC 5448 |
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| The galaxy NGC 5448 imaged with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 02 m 50.0 s |
| declination | + 49 ° 10 ′ 22 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SAB (r) a / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.8 '× 2.0' |
| Position angle | 115 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 372 |
| Redshift | 0.006748 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 2023 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(95 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (29.2 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5448 • UGC 8969 • PGC 50031 • CGCG 247-004 • MCG + 08-26-003 • IRAS 14009 + 4924 • 2MASX J14025007 + 4910215 • GC 3761 • H II-691 • h 1743 • LDCE 1043 NED006 | |
NGC 5448 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Ursa Major in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 95 million light years from the Milky Way and about 105,000 light years in diameter .
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 5425 .
The object was discovered on May 15, 1787 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel .
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