NGC 5154
| Galaxy NGC 5154 |
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| NGC 5149 & NGC 5154 (image taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory ). | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 26 m 28.5 s |
| declination | + 36 ° 00 ′ 37 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 56 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | isolated |
| Redshift | 0.018610 ± 0.000060 |
| Radial velocity | (5579 ± 18) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(252 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (77.2 ± 5.4) Mpc |
| diameter | 105,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5154 • UGC 8447 • PGC 47041 • CGCG 190-011 • MCG + 06-30-11 • 2MASX J13262849 + 3600373 • GC 3545 • H III 405 • h 1605 • GALEX ASC J132628.65 + 360037.0 • KPG 375B | |
NGC 5154 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Canes Venatici on the northern sky . It is an estimated 252 million light years from the Milky Way and about 105,000 light years in diameter . Together with NGC 5149 , it forms the isolated galaxy pair KPG 375 .
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5141 , NGC 5142 , NGC 5143 .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on May 1, 1785 .
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