IC 4518B - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus

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

Available Resources for IC 4518B - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus

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

Photometric information of IC 4518B

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 4518B 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.

The surface brightess reported below is an indication of the brightness per unit of angular area of IC 4518B.

Apparent size of IC 4518B

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

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4518B

The image below is a photograph of IC 4518B 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 4518B - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus morphological classification

IC 4518B - 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 4518B - Spiral Galaxy in Lupus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 4518B

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

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 4518B 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 4518B from your location

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