Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 14 06 31.999
- Declination
- +06 ° 01 ′ 45.86 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1021 km/s
- Distance
- 67.2 Mly (20.61 Mpc )
- Type
- Sb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 13.23
- Image
- NGC5470 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 50317
- redshift
- 0.003422
- time of discovery or invention
- 1830-04-17
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- apparent magnitude
- 12.150
- right ascension
- 211.6333292
- declination
- 6.0294056
- radial velocity
- 1026
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5470
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5470 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located between 43 and 68 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1830. It is a member of the Virgo III Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.
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