NGC 5250
| Galaxy NGC 5250 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 36 m 07.3 s |
| declination | + 51 ° 14 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015094 +/- 0.000103 |
| Radial velocity | 4525 +/- 31 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(207 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (63.4 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 26, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5250 • UGC 8594 • PGC 47997 • CGCG 271-053 • MCG + 09-22-085 • 2MASX J13360737 + 5114085 • GC 3617 • H II 817 • LDCE 990 NED002 | |
NGC 5250 is a 13.0 mag bright, lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble-type S0 in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 207 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 60,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5238 , NGC 5225 , IC 907 , among others .
The object was discovered on April 26, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, S, R, vgbM".