NGC 5119
| Galaxy NGC 5119 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 24 m 00.3 s |
| declination | -12 ° 16 ′ 35 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0o: sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 19 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009720 +/- 0.000100 |
| Radial velocity | 2914 +/- 30 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(126 ± 9) · 10 6 ly (38.6 ± 2.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 6, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5119 • PGC 46826 • MCG -02-34-042 • GC 3517 • h 3497 • LDCE 0955 NED041 | |
NGC 5119 is a 13.0 mag bright lenticular galaxy of the Hubble-type S0? in the constellation of Virgo , which is about 126 million light-years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on May 6, 1836 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope, which displayed “pB, S, R or lE, definition bad; “doubted at first if it really was a nebula, but remained satisfied” and mistakenly mistook it for the object NGC 5146 described by Wilhelm Herschel .