NGC 5457

A fragment of the image #1 displaying the neighborhood of M101, obtained by F. Neyer with an exposure of 45.6 hours. Here the region of an M101 satellite, the galaxy NGC5477, and a new satellite candidate dwA is shown. The frame size is 36 x 24 arcmin. The coordinates of this new LSB candidate M101 dwA are R.A. = 14 h 06 min 50.2 s, DEC = +53 ° 44 ‘ 32 ”.
(Have also a look into the article “New Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies Detected Around Nearby Spirals” in the sub-page “publications in collaboration with the TBG Group”.)

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Note: This webpage gives information of two galaxies. NGC 5457 (M 101) as well as NGC 5485, because both galaxies are published in one single image from F. Neyer .

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