NGC 5158
| Galaxy NGC 5158 |
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| SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 27 m 47.0 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 46 ′ 44 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBab / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 126 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022055 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 6612 ± 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(295 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (90.5 ± 6.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 7, 1826 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5158 • UGC 8459 • PGC 47180 • CGCG 101-054 • MCG + 03-34-038 • IRAS 13253 + 1802 • 2MASX J13274693 + 1746442 • GC 3549 • h 1607 • HIPASS J1327 + 17 • LDCE 981 NED002 | |
NGC 5158 is a 12.9 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBab in the constellation Coma Berenices the northern sky . It is estimated to be 295 million light years from the Milky Way and about 110,000 light years across.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 5151 , NGC 5172 , NGC 5190 .
The object was discovered by John Herschel on May 7, 1826 .
Web links
- NGC 5158. SIMBAD, accessed July 1, 2015 .
- NGC 5158. DSO Browser, accessed July 1, 2015 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5158. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed July 1, 2015 .