NGC 5137

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Galaxy
NGC 5137
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Virgin
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 24 m 52.5 s
declination + 14 ° 04 ′ 38 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S?  
Brightness  (visual) 14.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.6 mag
Angular expansion 0.6 ′ × 0.3 ′
Position angle 117 °
Surface brightness 12.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation NGC 5129 group
WBL 444-006  
Redshift 0.024030 ± 0.000113  
Radial velocity 7204 ± 34 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(321 ± 23)  x  10 6  ly
(98.5 ± 6.9)  Mpc 
history
discovery Lewis Swift
Discovery date April 17, 1887
Catalog names
NGC  5137 • PGC  46907 • CGCG  072-071 • 2MASX  J13245247 + 1404382 • GALEX ASC J132452.50 + 140439.1

NGC 5137 is a 14.8 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type S in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 321 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 55,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 5115 , NGC 5129 , NGC 5132 , NGC 5136 .

The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on April 17, 1887 .

Web links

  • NGC 5137. SIMBAD, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  • NGC 5137. DSO Browser, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  • Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5137. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed June 29, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 5137
  3. Seligman