NGC 5141
| Galaxy NGC 5141 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 24 m 51.4 s |
| declination | + 36 ° 22 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 80 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017379 +/- 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | 5210 +/- 20 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(235 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (72.1 ± 5.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5141 • UGC 8433 • PGC 46906 • CGCG 190-006, 189-065 • MCG + 06-30-004 • GC 3533 • H III 402 • h 1599 • LDCE 0971 NED001 | |
NGC 5141 is a 12.8 likes bright lenticular radio galaxy from the Hubble type S0 in the constellation hunting dogs and about 235 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 1, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who called it “Two. Both vF, cS. The place is that of the preceding. The second 3 ′ Nf “described. The second named object is NGC 5142 .