NGC 5672
| Galaxy NGC 5672 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 32 m 38.3 s |
| declination | + 31 ° 40 ′ 13 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb? sp / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 50 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 383 |
| Redshift | 0.011785 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 3533 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(161 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (49.5 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 13, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5672 • IC 1030 • UGC 9354 • PGC 51964 • CGCG 163-077 • MCG + 05-34-68 • IRAS 14305 + 3153 • 2MASX J14323834 + 3140127 • GC 3930 • H III 310 • h 1836 • | |
NGC 5672 is a 13.4 mag bright spiral galaxy with pronounced HII regions of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bear Keeper in the northern sky . It is an estimated 161 million light years away from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on March 13, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS, iF". The observation of Truman Safford on May 4, 1866 led to an entry in the index catalog under IC 1030 .