NGC 5478
| Galaxy data from NGC 5478 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 08 m 08.5 s |
| declination | -01 ° 42 ′ 08 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 37 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025147 +/- 0.000097 |
| Radial velocity | 7539 ± 29 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(335 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (102.8 ± 7.2) Mpc |
| diameter | 110,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 23, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5478 • UGC 9034 • PGC 50430 • CGCG 018-055 • MCG + 00-36-019 • IRAS 14055-0127 • 2MASX J14080854-0142081 • GC 3788 • H III 762 • LDCE 1030 NED007 | |
NGC 5478 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble-type SAB (s) bc in the constellation Virgo . It is estimated to be 335 million light years from the Milky Way and about 110,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on March 23, 1789 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .