NGC 5022
| Galaxy NGC 5022 |
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| NGC 1822, NGC 5018 (center left) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 13 m 30.8 s |
| declination | -19 ° 32 ′ 48 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb pec sp / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.5 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 21 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.010010 +/- 0.000027 |
| Radial velocity | 3001 +/- 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(129 ± 9) · 10 6 ly (39.5 ± 2.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Temple |
| Discovery date | March 31, 1881 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5022 • PGC 45952, 45953 • ESO 576-G14 • MCG -03-34-021 • IRAS 13108-1917 • 2MASX J13114576-1915421 • SGC 131050-1917.0 • LDCE 0955 NED017 | |
NGC 5022 is a 12.9 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Virgo to the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 129 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 100,000 ly. Together with NGC 5018, it forms a gravitationally bound pair of galaxies.
The galaxy NGC 5006 is located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on March 31, 1881 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel .
Web links
- NGC 5022. SIMBAD, accessed February 24, 2015 .
- NGC 5022. DSO Browser, accessed February 24, 2015 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5022. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 24, 2015 .
- ESO: Annotated view of the environment of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5018
- ESO: Zooming in on NGC 5018/5022 (animation)