NGC 5127
Galaxy NGC 5127 |
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SDSS recording | |
AladinLite | |
Constellation | Hunting dogs |
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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Right ascension | 13 h 23 m 45.0 s |
declination | + 31 ° 33 ′ 57 ″ |
Appearance | |
Morphological type | E2 / LINER |
Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
Angular expansion | 2.8 ′ × 2.2 ′ |
Position angle | 75 ° |
Surface brightness | 14.5 mag / arcmin² |
Physical data | |
Affiliation | LGG 350 |
Redshift | 0.016218 ± 0.000073 |
Radial velocity | 4862 ± 22 km / s |
Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(219 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (67.1 ± 4.7) Mpc |
history | |
discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
Discovery date | March 13, 1785 |
Catalog names | |
NGC 5127 • UGC 8419 • PGC 46809 • CGCG 161-042 • MCG + 05-32-013 • 2MASX J13234497 + 3133568 • GC 3524 • H II 328 • h 1596 • GALEX ASC J132344.94 + 313356.6 • LDCE 968 NED002 |
NGC 5127 is a 12.5 may bright elliptical galaxy with active galaxies core from the Hubble type E2 in the constellation hunting dogs on the northern sky . It is estimated to be 219 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 180,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5131 , IC 4239 , IC 4240 , IC 4242 .
The Type Ia supernova SN 1991bi was observed here.
The object was discovered on March 13, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, pS, nearly R, mbM".