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40 statements · 90% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Catalog code
- M 48 catalog: Messier object
1
- NGC 2548 catalog: New General Catalogue
1
- Collinder 179 catalog: Collinder catalogue
- Melotte 85 catalog: Melotte Catalogue
- C 0811-056 catalog: Caldwell catalogue
1
- [KPR2004b] 189
1
- [KPS2012] MWSC 1454
1
- M 48 catalog: Messier object
- Discovered
- February 19, 1771
1
Sources- 1.“Charles Messier's Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters”messier.seds.org/xtra/history/m-cat.htmlRetrieved 2017-03-17
- February 19, 1771
- Distance from Earth
- 1,500 ly
1
- 769 pc
1
- 1,500 ly
- Radius
- 11.5 ly
1
- 11.5 ly
- Right ascension
- 123.429 degree
1
- 123.4292 degree
1
- 123.429 degree
- Declination
- -5.75 degree
1
- -5.75 degree
1
- -5.75 degree
- Radial velocity
- 41.5 kilometre per second
1
- 8.83 kilometre per second
- 41.5 kilometre per second
- Metallicity
- 0.08
1
- 0.08
- Parallax
- 1.2897 milliarcsecond
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.73 milliarcsecond per year
- -1.3302 milliarcsecond per year
- -1.33 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- 2.13 milliarcsecond per year
- 1.0164 milliarcsecond per year
- 1.016 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
3 identifiers linking Messier 48 across the web's reference databases