NGC 5016
| Galaxy NGC 5016 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 12 m 06.7 s |
| declination | + 24 ° 05 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c / SBNG |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 50 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 336 |
| Redshift | 0.008713 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 2612 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(117 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.9 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 10, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5016 • UGC 8279 • PGC 45836 • CGCG 130-019 • MCG + 04-31-013 • IRAS 3096 + 2421 • KUG 1309 + 243 • 2MASX J13120668 + 2405421 • GC 3446 • H II 356 • | |
NGC 5016 is a 12.9 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBBC in the constellation Coma Berenices the northern sky . It is estimated to be 117 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 55,000 ly. Together with NGC 5012 and PGC 45884 , it forms the small galaxy group LGG 336.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies IC 854 , IC 860 , IC 4202 .
The object was discovered on April 10, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, S".