NGC 5876
| Galaxy NGC 5876 / IC 1111 |
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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 | 15 h 09 m 31.5 s |
| declination | + 54 ° 30 ′ 23 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) ab / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.4 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 50 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 395 |
| Redshift | 0.010928 ± 0.000027 |
| Radial velocity | (3276 ± 8) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(153 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (46.9 ± 3.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 11, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5876 • IC 1111 • UGC 9747 • PGC 54110 • CGCG 274-028 • MCG + 09-25-028 • IRAS F15081 + 5441 • 2MASX J15093156 + 5430228 • LDCE 1103 NED004 | |
NGC 5876 = IC 1111 is a 12.9 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 153 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 105,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there is u. a. the galaxy NGC 5874 .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 11, 1885 . However, this observation contained an error of almost 5 minutes in the right ascension, so that his second observation on August 27, 1888 under IC 1111 led to an entry in the index catalog .
Web links
- NGC 5876. SIMBAD , accessed May 9, 2016 .
- NGC 5876. DSO Browser, accessed May 9, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5876. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 9, 2016 (English).