NGC 5164
| Galaxy NGC 5164 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 27 m 11.9 s |
| declination | + 55 ° 29 ′ 14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 27 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.024076 +/- 0.000164 |
| Radial velocity | 7218 +/- 49 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(327 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (100.4 ± 7.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 14, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5164 • UGC 8458 • PGC 47124 • CGCG 271-041 • MCG + 09-22-063 • GC 3553 • H III 784 • h 1609 • LDCE 0977 NED001 | |
NGC 5164 is a 13.7 mag bright barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Great Bear , about 327 million light years away from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on April 14, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cF, S, iR".