NGC 5007
| Galaxy NGC 5007 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 09 m 14.4 s |
| declination | + 62 ° 10 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0- |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.027836 +/- 0.000103 |
| Radial velocity | 8345 +/- 31 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(378 ± 26) · 10 6 ly (116.0 ± 8.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 19, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5007 • UGC 8240 • PGC 45605 • CGCG 294-021 • MCG + 10-19-042 • GC 3438 • H III 848 • LDCE 0944 NED003 | |
NGC 5007 is a 13.3 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Ursa Major , which is about 378 million light-years from the Milky Way's center.
The object was discovered on March 19, 1790 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS".