NGC 5003
| Galaxy NGC 5003 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 08 m 37.9 s |
| declination | + 43 ° 44 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sa / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 72 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.035575 +/- 0.000183 |
| Radial velocity | 10665 +/- 55 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(479 ± 34) · 10 6 Lj (147.0 ± 10.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5003 • UGC 8228 • PGC 45559 • CGCG 217-013 • MCG + 07-27-033 • GC 3435 • H III 655 • | |
NGC 5003 is a 14.3 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation of the hounds . It is around 479 million light years away from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, pS, lbM".
Web links
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- NGC 5003. DSO Browser, accessed February 24, 2015 .