NGC 5108
| Galaxy NGC 5108 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | centaur |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 23 m 18.8 s |
| declination | -32 ° 20 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (s) b: |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 2 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.028737 ± 0.000133 |
| Radial velocity | 8615 ± 40 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(378 ± 26) · 10 6 ly (116.0 ± 8.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 3, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5108 • PGC 46774 • ESO 444-020 • MCG -05-32-005 • 2MASX J13231884-3220314 • SGC 132030-3204.8 • GC 3508 • h 3494 • GALEX ASC J132318.88-322031.9 | |
NGC 5108 is a 14.2 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Centaur in the southern sky . It is an estimated 378 million light years from the Milky Way and about 140,000 light years in diameter. In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 5114 .
The object was discovered on June 3, 1836 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope, which "extremely extremely faint. The preceding of 2 ”noted. The second named object is NGC 5114 .