NGC 5171
| Galaxy NGC 5171 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 29 m 21.5 s |
| declination | + 11 ° 44 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0- |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 10 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022943 +/- 0.000083 |
| Radial velocity | 6878 +/- 25 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(306 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (93.9 ± 6.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | George Hough |
| Discovery date | May 5, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5171 • UGC 8476 • PGC 47339 • CGCG 072-089 • MCG + 02-34-020 • 2MASX J13292154 + 1144065 • LDCE 0978 NED004 | |
NGC 5171 is a 12.9 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Virgo . It is estimated to be 306 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 ly in diameter.
The galaxy is the brightest object in a small group that still consists of NGC 5176 , NGC 5177 , NGC 5178, and NGC 5179 .
The object was discovered on May 5, 1883 by George Washington Hough , who wrote “Double. Nebula, round, condensed ”noted.