NGC 5089
| Galaxy NGC 5089 |
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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 19 m 39.3 s |
| declination | + 30 ° 15 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007142 ± 0.000004 |
| Radial velocity | 2141 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(97 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (29.8 ± 2.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 13, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5089 • UGC 8371 • PGC 46477 • CGCG 160-194 • 161-012 • MCG + 05-31-175 • IRAS 13173 + 3031 • KUG 1317 + 305 • 2MASX J13193929 + 3015227 • GC 3495 • H II 327 • h 1580 • | |
NGC 5089 is a 13.5 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy with pronounced emission lines of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Haar der Berenike in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 97 million light years from the Milky Way and about 50,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on March 13, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “F., pS.” (“Faint, pretty small”).