NGC 5214
| Galaxy NGC 5214 |
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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 32 m 48.7 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 52 ′ 19 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd: / BLAGN? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 140 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.026942 +/- 0.000050 |
| Radial velocity | 8077 +/- 15 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(364 ± 25) x 10 6 ly (111.7 ± 7.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5214 • UGC 8531 • PGC 47675 • CGCG 218-021 • MCG + 07-28-030 • IRAS 13306 + 4207 • KUG 1330 + 421 • GC 3587 • H III 656 • h 1632 • | |
NGC 5214 is a 13.8 likes bright spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type Sc in the constellation Virgo . Together with the non-NGC object PGC 47679 (also called NGC 5214A ) it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy and was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who marked it with "vF, vS, lbM ”.