NGC 5964
| Galaxy NGC 5964 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 37 m 36.2 s |
| declination | + 05 ° 58 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) d / AGN? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.1 ′ × 3.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 145 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.004827 ± 0.000004 |
| Radial velocity | (1447 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(67 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (20.5 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| diameter | 80,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 24, 1830 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5964 • IC 4551 • UGC 9935 • PGC 55637 • CGCG 050-047 • MCG + 01-40-008 • IRAS 15351 + 0608 • 2MASX J15373722 + 0558068 • | |
NGC 5964 = IC 4551 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBcd in the constellation Snake north of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 67 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly. a. the galaxies NGC 5955 and NGC 5960 .
The object was discovered on April 24, 1830 by John Herschel (listed as NGC ) and on August 19, 1897 by Lewis Swift ( listed as IC ).