NGC 5032
| Galaxy NGC 5032 |
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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 13 m 27.0 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 48 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) b / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 22 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Coma galaxy clusters |
| Redshift | 0.021375 +/- 0.000027 |
| Radial velocity | 6408 +/- 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(287 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (88.1 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5032, 5032A • UGC 8300 • PGC 45947 • CGCG 160-166 • MCG + 05-31-160 • 2MASX J13132694 + 2748086 • GC 3458 • H III 367 • h 1563 • LDCE 926 NED083 | |
NGC 5032 , also NGC 5032 A called, is a 12.8 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBb in the constellation Coma Berenices the northern sky . It is an estimated 287 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 180,000 ly. With the non-NGC object PGC 45940 (also called NGC 5032B ) it forms a gravitationally connected galaxy pair and belongs to the Coma galaxy cluster .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “vF, pL”.
Web links
- NGC 5032. SIMBAD, accessed February 24, 2015 .
- NGC 5032. DSO Browser, accessed February 24, 2015 .
- Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 5000 - 5049. Retrieved February 24, 2015 .