NGC 5292

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Galaxy
NGC 5292
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Constellation centaur
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 47 m 40.1 s
declination -30 ° 56 ′ 22 ″
Appearance
Morphological type (R ') SA (rs) from LINER?  
Brightness  (visual) 12.0 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 12.8 mag
Angular expansion 1.8 ′ × 1.6 ′
Position angle 55 °
Surface brightness 13.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation LGG 357  
Redshift 0.014897 +/- 0.000017  
Radial velocity 4466 +/- 5 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(194 ± 14)  ·  10 6  ly
(59.4 ± 4.2)  Mpc 
history
discovery John Herschel
Discovery date March 30, 1835
Catalog names
NGC  5292 • PGC  48909 • ESO  445-G031 • MCG  -05-33-08 • IRAS  13447-3041 • SGC  134448-3041.5 • GC  3647 • h  3536 • LDCE 0996 NED053

NGC 5292 is a 12.0 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Centaurus and about 194 million light-years from the Milky Way center. It has an active galactic nucleus from LINER-type and was on 30 March 1835 by John Herschel discovered a 18-inch reflecting telescope of this "pF, R, GBM, 20 arcseconds, has 2 or 3 stars close to it" noted .

Web links

  • NGC 5292. SIMBAD, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  • NGC 5292. DSO Browser, accessed February 8, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 5292
  3. Seligman
  4. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5292. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 8, 2016 (English).