NGC 5025
| Galaxy NGC 5025 |
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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 12 m 44.7 s |
| declination | + 31 ° 48 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 57 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021158 ± 0.000008 |
| Radial velocity | (6343 ± 2) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(285 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (87.3 ± 6.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 20, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5025 • UGC 8292 • PGC 45887 • CGCG 160-162 • MCG + 05-31-155 • IRAS 13103 + 3204 • 2MASX J13124475 + 3148335 • GC 3454 • H III 649 • h 1560 • | |
NGC 5025 is a 13.6 may bright spiral galaxy with active galaxies core from the Hubble type Sb in the constellation of the hounds . It is estimated to be 285 million light years from the Milky Way and about 170,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered on March 20, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, S, lE".