NGC 5270
| Galaxy NGC 5270 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 42 m 10.9 s |
| declination | + 04 ° 15 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (s) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 20 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023520 +/- 0.000277 |
| Radial velocity | 7051 +/- 83 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(313 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (96.1 ± 6.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 7, 1828 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5270 • UGC 8673 • PGC 48527 • CGCG 045-075 • MCG + 01-35-31 • 2MASX J13421086 + 0415450 • GC 3635 • h 1662 • | |
NGC 5270 is a 13.7 mag bright barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB (s) b in the constellation Virgo . It is an estimated 313 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 100,000 ly.
The object was discovered on April 7, 1828 by John Herschel .
Web links
- NGC 5270. SIMBAD, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- NGC 5270. DSO Browser, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5270. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed February 8, 2016 .