NGC 5452
| Galaxy NGC 5452 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 54 m 24.9 s |
| declination | + 78 ° 13 ′ 14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) d |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 '× 1.5' |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006891 ± 0.000037 |
| Radial velocity | 2066 ± 11 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(99 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (30.5 ± 2.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 20, 1797 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5452 • UGC 8867 • PGC 49426 • CGCG 353-028 • MCG + 13-10-014 • IRAS F13544 + 7827 • GC 3765 • H III 947 • h 1747 • | |
NGC 5452 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBcd in the constellation Little Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 99 million light years from the Milky Way and about 55,000 light years across .
The object was discovered on December 20, 1797 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .