NGC 5187
| Galaxy NGC 5187 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 29 m 48.2 s |
| declination | + 31 ° 07 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 48 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023923 +/- 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 7172 +/- 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(322 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (98.8 ± 6.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 20, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5187 • PGC 47393 • CGCG 161-069 • MCG + 05-32-029 • IRAS 13274 + 3123 • KUG 1327 + 313 • GC 3568 • H III 652 • h 1620 • LDCE 0983 NED009 | |
NGC 5187 is a 13.7 likes bright spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type Sb in the constellation of the hunting dogs and about 322 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on March 20, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "eF, vS".