Q1112845
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 12 39 59.381
- Declination
- +61 ° 36 ′ 33.09 ″
- Redshift
- 0.000484 ± 0.000020
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 143 ± 5 km/s
- Distance
- 18.10 ± 0.33 Mly (5.55 ± 0.10 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude b
- –18.10
- Type
- SBc or SB(s)c pec
- Mass light ratio
- 0.25 ± 0.03 M ☉ / L ☉
- Apparent size v
- 6.03 ′ × 2.45 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 3.9
- Image
- The scale of the Universe.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-03-19
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- S0gas
- catalog code
- [NKB95] N4605
- Commons category
- NGC 4605
- apparent magnitude
- 10.490
- redshift
- 0.000484
- radial velocity
- 140
- right ascension
- 189.9974208
- declination
- 61.6091917
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4605 is a dwarf barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, located at a distance of 18.1 ± 0.3 megalight-years from the Milky Way. Physically it is similar in size and in B-band absolute magnitude to the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is a possible member of either the M81 Galaxy Group or the Messier 101 Group.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1112845” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.