NGC 5260
| Galaxy NGC 5260 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 40 m 19.9 s |
| declination | -23 ° 51 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) c; Sy2 / HII? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021688 +/- 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 6502 +/- 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(285 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (87.5 ± 6.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | April 6, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5260 • PGC 48371 • ESO 509-G092 • MCG -04-32-50 • IRAS 13375-2336 • | |
NGC 5260 is a 12.8 mag bright bar-spiral-shaped Seyfert galaxy (type 2) of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Water Snake . It is about 822 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on April 6, 1885 .
Web links
- NGC 5260. SIMBAD, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- NGC 5260. DSO Browser, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5260. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed February 8, 2016 .