NGC 5108
Galaxy NGC 5108 |
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AladinLite | |
Constellation | centaur |
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 |
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 .