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Also known as New General Catalogue 4605

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.