De Vaucouleurs Atlas Type: SA(s)bc

Filter: B

Telescope: CTIO 1.5-m
North left , East down
Field Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.6 arcminutes

RC3 Type: SA(s)bc
RSA Type: Sb(s)I-II
Surface Brightness Range Displayed: 18.5-26.0 mag per square arcsec
Absolute Blue Magnitude: -21.1
Elmegreen Spiral Arm Class: AC 5

De Vaucouleurs Atlas Description:

Apart from being an exceptional ``grand design " spiral, NGC 5054 is noteworthy for having a dominant three-armed pattern. In the dust-penetrated system of Block and Puerari (1999), the classification of NGC 5054 is given as H3-gamma (Block et al. 1999a), meaning the dominant harmonic is m=3 and the arms are of the open pitch angle class gamma.