NGC 5497
| Galaxy NGC 5497 |
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| NGC 5497 with LEDA 50594 (right), SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 10 m 31.6 s |
| declination | + 38 ° 53 ′ 37 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 75 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025646 ± 0.000157 |
| Radial velocity | 7688 ± 47 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(347 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (106.5 ± 7.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | May 11, 1882 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5497 • UGC 9069 • PGC 50610 • CGCG 219-054 • MCG + 07-29-048 • KUG 1408 + 391B • 2MASX J14103162 + 3853368 • 2MASS J14103164 + 3853368 | |
NGC 5497 is a 14.1 mag bright bar spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 347 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 120,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 5515 .
The object was discovered on May 11, 1882 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 5497. SIMBAD, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- NGC 5497. DSO Browser, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5497. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 10, 2016 (English).