NGC 5183
| Galaxy NGC 5183 |
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| SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 30 m 06.1 s |
| declination | -01 ° 43 ′ 14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 122 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014310 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 4290 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(189 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (57.9 ± 4.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5183 • UGC 8485 • PGC 47432 • CGCG 016-079 • MCG + 00-34-039 • IRAS 13275-0127 • 2MASX J13300614-0143144 • GC 3565 • H II 679 • h 1617 • LEDA 47432 | |
NGC 5183 is a 12.7 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type "Sb" in the constellation Virgo north of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 189 million light years from the Milky Way and about 105,000 ly in diameter.
The galaxies NGC 5192 , NGC 5196 , NGC 5197 , NGC 5202 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, which she labeled “Two. The preceding F, pS, iF. The following pB, pL, iF, bM ”described. The second galaxy named is NGC 5184 .