NGC 5273
| Galaxy NGC 5273 / IC 895 |
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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 42 m 08.3 s |
| declination | + 35 ° 39 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.8 ′ × 2.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 10 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.003619 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 1085 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(51 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (15.7 ± 1.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5273 • IC 895 • UGC 8675 • PGC 48521 • CGCG 190-041 • MCG + 06-30-72 • GC 3637 • H I 98 • h 1664 • | |
NGC 5273 = IC 895 is a 11.5 may bright lenticular Seyfert galaxy (type 1) from the Hubble type S0 in the constellation hunting dogs and approximately 51 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on May 1, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cB, pL, R, vgmbM".