IC 5149 - Spiral Galaxy in Piscis Austrinus

IC 5149 is a Spiral Galaxy in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. IC 5149 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for IC 5149 - Spiral Galaxy in Piscis Austrinus

• Photometric information of IC 5149
• Apparent size of IC 5149
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 5149
• IC 5149 morphological classification.
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of IC 5149.
• Rise ans set times of IC 5149 from your location.

Photometric information of IC 5149

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 5149 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 5149.

Apparent size of IC 5149

The following table reports IC 5149 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 5149 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 5149

The image below is a photograph of IC 5149 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 5149 - Spiral Galaxy in Piscis Austrinus morphological classification

IC 5149 - Spiral Galaxy in Piscis Austrinus is classified as Spiral (SAa) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of IC 5149 - Spiral Galaxy in Piscis Austrinus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 5149

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 5149 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 5149 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 5149 from your location

Today's IC 5149 - Spiral Galaxy in Piscis Austrinus rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):