NGC 5473

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NGC 5473
NGC5473 - SDSS DR14.jpg
SDSS image of NGC 5473
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension 14h 04m 43.22677s [1]
Declination +54° 53′ 33.5103″ [1]
Redshift 0.006558 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity 1960 km/s [2]
Distance 85  Mly (26.2  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)11.47 [4]
Apparent magnitude  (B)12.37 [4]
Characteristics
Type SAB0−(s): [5]
Other designations
UGC 9011, MCG +09-23-031, PGC 50191 [2]

NGC 5473 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered on April 14, 1789, by the astronomer William Herschel. [6] Located roughly 85 million light-years (26.2 megaparsecs) away, it is part of a small galaxy group including NGC 5475 and NGC 5485. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616. A1. arXiv: 1804.09365 . Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 . Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. 1 2 3 "NGC 5473". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  3. 1 2 Hudson, Michael J.; Robison, Bailey (2018). "The correlation between the sizes of globular cluster systems and their host dark matter haloes". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477 (3): 3869–3885. arXiv: 1707.02609 . doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty844 .
  4. 1 2 "Search specification: NGC 5473". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  5. ↑ "Results for object NGC 5473 (NGC 5473)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  6. ↑ Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 5450 - 5499". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.

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