NGC 5233
| Galaxy NGC 5233 |
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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 35 m 13.3 s |
| declination | + 34 ° 40 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 80 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.026472 ± 0.000063 |
| Radial velocity | 7936 ± 19 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(357 ± 25) · 10 6 ly (109.5 ± 7.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 3, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5233 • UGC 8568 • PGC 47895 • CGCG 190-029 • MCG + 06-30-047 • GC 3603 • H III 425 • h 1645 • | |
NGC 5233 is a 14.0 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sab in the constellation of the hounds in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 357 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 145,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5223 , NGC 5228 , NGC 5240 , among others .
The object was discovered on May 3, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS, in the field with III.407.408". The other two objects mentioned are NGC 5223 and NGC 5228 .