NGC 5225
| Galaxy NGC 5225 |
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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 33 m 20.1 s |
| declination | + 51 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015407 +/- 0.000103 |
| Radial velocity | 4619 +/- 31 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(211 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (64.7 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 26, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5225 • UGC 8540 • PGC 47731 • CGCG 271-050 • MCG + 09-22-078 • GC 3599 • H III 822 • LDCE 0990 NED001 | |
NGC 5225 is a 13.7 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation of the hunting dogs and about 211 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 26, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cF, pS, iR, lbM".