NGC 5487
| Galaxy NGC 5487 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 09 m 43.9 s |
| declination | + 08 ° 04 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 65 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.024374 +/- 0.000110 |
| Radial velocity | 7307 +/- 33 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(326 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (100.0 ± 7.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | George Searle |
| Discovery date | March 22, 1868 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5487 • PGC 50537 • CGCG 046-061 • MCG + 01-36-021 • IRAS 14072 + 0818 • 2MASX J14094386 + 0804085 • LDCE 1042 NED010 | |
NGC 5487 is a 14.0 mag bright bar-spiral-shaped radio galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Bear Guardian. It is estimated to be 326 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 90,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5469 , NGC 5482 , NGC 5511 .
The object was discovered by George Searle on March 22, 1868 .
Web links
- NGC 5487. SIMBAD, accessed March 9, 2016 .
- NGC 5487. DSO Browser, accessed March 9, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5487. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 9, 2016 (English).