NGC 5263
| Galaxy NGC 5263 |
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| SDSS galaxy | |
| 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 55.6 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 24 ′ 02 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 26 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.016111 +/- 0.000057 |
| Radial velocity | 4830 +/- 17 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(218 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (66.7 ± 4.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5263 • UGC 8648 • PGC 48333 • CGCG 161-113 • MCG + 05-32-58 • IRAS 13376 + 2839 • KUG 1337 + 286 • GC 3628 • H III 370 • h 1658 • | |
NGC 5263 is a 13.4 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation of hunting dogs . It is about 218 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, S, much extended nearly in the meridian".