IC 4518A - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus

IC 4518A is a Spiral Galaxy in the Lupus constellation. IC 4518A is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for IC 4518A - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus

• Photometric information of IC 4518A
• Apparent size of IC 4518A
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4518A
• IC 4518A morphological classification.
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of IC 4518A.
• Rise ans set times of IC 4518A from your location.

Photometric information of IC 4518A

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 4518A in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).

For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.

Apparent size of IC 4518A

The following table reports IC 4518A apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 4518A is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4518A

The image below is a photograph of IC 4518A from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).

IC 4518A - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus morphological classification

IC 4518A - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus is classified as Spiral (SAc) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of IC 4518A - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 4518A

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 4518A are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 4518A in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

Rise ans set times of IC 4518A from your location

IC 4518A - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus is currently not visible from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt