NGC 5243
| Galaxy NGC 5243 |
|
|---|---|
![NGC 5243 [1] SDSS image](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:NGC5243_-_SDSS_DR14.jpg)
|
|
| NGC 5243 SDSS image | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
|
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
|
| Right ascension | 13 h 36 m 14.953 s |
| declination | + 38 ° 20 ′ 38.14 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S. |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 126 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014026 ± 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 4205 ± 26 km / s |
|
Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(191 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (58.5 ± 4.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5243 • UGC 8592 • PGC 48011 • CGCG 218-027 • MCG + 07-28-036 • IRAS 13340 + 3836 • 2MASX J13361501 + 3820381 • GC 3612 • H III 620 • h 1648 • NSA 163761 • WISEA J133615.00 + 382038.2 | |
NGC 5243 is a 13.3 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Canes Venatici on the northern sky . It is estimated to be 191 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 85,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on March 17, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “cF, E nearly in the parallel, resolvable, 0.75 ′ long”.