Pinwheel Galaxy - M101 - NGC 5457 (David Huff)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 101 · NGC 5447 · NGC 5449 · NGC 5450 · NGC 5451 · NGC 5453 · NGC 5455 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5461 · NGC 5462 · NGC 5471 · Pinwheel galaxy

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Pinwheel Galaxy - M101 - NGC 5457

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The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M101 is a large galaxy, with a diameter of 170,000 light-years. By comparison, the Milky Way has a diameter of between 100,000 and 120,000 light-years. It has around a trillion stars! It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses. Its characteristics can be compared to those of Andromeda Galaxy. It's Apparent size is 28′.8 × 26′.9 (arc minutes) which in compared to the moon is half of a degree (30 arc minutes or about half the width of your thumb held at arm’s length) is about almost the size of a full moon but so dim it would be hard to see even with an eye piece in a visual telescope. In other words, if the human eye could resolve this galaxy, it would be about half the width of your thumb held at arm’s length! Click the other version for a close-up! Clear Skies!

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RA (center)	14h03m12s.267
RA (top/left)	14h05m03s.348
RA (top/right)	14h01m18s.137
RA (bottom/right)	14h01m18s.971
RA (bottom/left)	14h05m07s.711

Dec (center)	+54°20′53″.11
Dec (top/left)	+54°03′58″.56
Dec (top/right)	+54°04′25″.13
Dec (bottom/right)	+54°37′32″.27
Dec (bottom/left)	+54°37′12″.31

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