NGC 5495
| Galaxy NGC 5495 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 12 m 23.3 s |
| declination | -27 ° 06 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SA (rs) b; Sy2HII? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 38 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022472 +/- 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 6737 +/- 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(296 ± 21) x 10 6 ly (90.9 ± 6.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 13, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5495 • PGC 50729 • ESO 511-10 • MCG -04-34-01 • IRAS 14095-2652 • SGC 140931-2652.4 • GC 3803 • h 3561 • LDCE 1036 NED027 | |
NGC 5495 is a 12.8 mag bright bar -spiral Seyfert galaxy (type 2) of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Water Snake and about 296 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on May 13, 1834 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope, who noted "vF, S, R, bM, Np a star".