NGC 5290
| Galaxy NGC 5290 |
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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 45 m 19.2 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 42 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc: sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.7 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 95 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 361 |
| Redshift | 0.008583 +/- 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 2573 +/- 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(118 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (36.3 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 18, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5290 • UGC 8700 • PGC 48767 • CGCG 218-043 • MCG + 07-28-61 • IRAS 13432 + 4157 • GC 3645 • H I 170 • LDCE 1006 NED002 | |
NGC 5290 is a 12.1 mag bright spiral Seyfert galaxy (type 2) of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation of the Hounds and 118 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on March 18, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who marked it with “cB, elongated nearly in parallel, small nucleus in the middle; 2 ′ long “.