NGC 5259
| Galaxy NGC 5259 |
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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 39 m 23.9 s |
| declination | + 30 ° 59 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 ^ + ^ pec + E2 pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 108 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.061200 |
| Radial velocity | 18347 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(822 ± 57) · 10 6 Lj (251.9 ± 17.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Louis d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | April 27, 1865 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5259 • PGC 48292 • CGCG 161-105 • MCG + 05-32-52 • GC 5749 • spar 533 | |
NGC 5259 is a 14.2 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E in the constellation of hunting dogs . It is about 822 million light years from the Milky Way and interacts with the galaxy SDSS J133923.13 + 305932.4 .
The object was discovered on April 27, 1865 by the German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest .