Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.006558
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 211.1801° · Dec 54.8926°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 14 04 43.22677
- Declination
- +54 ° 53 ′ 33.5103 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1960 km/s
- Distance
- 85 Mly (26.2 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB0 (s):
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 33.51
- Image
- NGC5473 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1609405678392464256
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1789-04-14
- redshift
- 0.006558
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- apparent magnitude
- 10.818
- radial velocity
- 1960
- right ascension
- 211.18011156246020
- declination
- 54.89264175240240
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5473
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5473 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered on April 14, 1789, by the astronomer William Herschel. Located roughly 85 million light-years (26.2 megaparsecs) away, it is part of a small galaxy group including NGC 5475 and NGC 5485.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5473” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.