NGC 5480
| Galaxy NGC 5480 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 06 m 21.6 s |
| declination | + 50 ° 43 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) c: |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 372 |
| Redshift | 0.006191 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 1856 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(88 ± 6) x 10 6 ly (27.0 ± 1.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5480 • UGC 9026 • PGC 50312 • CGCG 272-027 • MCG + 09-23-35 • IRAS 14045 + 5057 • 2MASX J14062152 + 5043299 • GC 3789 • H II 692 • LDCE 1043 NED007 | |
NGC 5480 is a 12.3 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Ursa Major at the northern sky and is estimated to be 88 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
Together with NGC 5481, it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy, both of which were discovered on May 15, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who marked them with “Two. The preceding [NGC 5480] F, pS, R, vgbM. The following [NGC 5481] F, vS, stellar, smbM; distance 2.5 ′ “.