NGC 5248

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Galaxy
NGC 5248
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Image taken with a 32-inch telescope
Image taken with a 32-inch telescope
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Constellation Bear keeper
Position
equinox :  J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 37 m 32.024 s
declination + 08 ° 53 ′ 06.64 ″
Appearance
Morphological type (R) SB (rs) bc / Sy2 / HII  
Brightness  (visual) 10.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 10.9 likes
Angular expansion 6.2 ′ × 4.5 ′
Position angle 122 °
Surface brightness 13.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.003839 ± 0.000002  
Radial velocity (1151 ± 1) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0 		(50 ± 4)  x  10 6  ly
(15.4 ± 1.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 15, 1784
Catalog names
NGC  5248 • UGC  8616 • PGC  48130 • CGCG  073-054 • MCG  + 02-35-015 • IRAS  13350 + 0908 • 2MASX  J13373206 + 0853062 • GC  3615 • H  I 34 • h  1650 • NVSS J133732 + 085309 • WISEA J133732. 02 + 085306.9

NGC 5248 is an active bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc and is located in the constellation Bootes on the border with the constellation Virgo. It is estimated to be 50 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light years in diameter.

In the same area of ​​the sky is u. a. the galaxy IC 900 .

The object was discovered on April 15, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database
  2. ↑ a b c d e f SEDS: NGC 5248
  3. ↑ Seligman