NGC 5275
| Galaxy NGC 5275 |
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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 23.5 s |
| declination | + 29 ° 49 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E / S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.041836 +/- 0.00006 |
| Radial velocity | 12542 +/- 18 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(562 ± 39) · 10 6 ly (172.4 ± 12.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | May 25, 1881 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5275 • PGC 48544 • CGCG 161-124 • MCG + 05-32-67 • VV 543 • | |
NGC 5275 is a 14.2 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E / S0 in the constellation hunting dogs and about 562 million light-years from the Milky Way center. It interacts with the objects VV 543 E and VV 543 W and was discovered on May 25, 1881 by Édouard Stephan with the "0.8m silvered glass reflector" from the Marseille observatory , who marked it with "faint, small, round, gradually much brighter in the middle ”.