NGC 5297
| Galaxy NGC 5297 |
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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 46 m 23.7 s |
| declination | + 43 ° 52 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) c: sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 5.6 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 148 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 358 |
| Redshift | 0.008036 +/- 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | (2409 +/- 2) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(112 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (34.2 ± 2.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5297 • UGC 8709 • PGC 48815 • CGCG 218-045 • MCG + 07-28-063 • IRAS 13442 + 4407 • GC 3652 • H I 180 • h 1668 • LDCE 0988 NED005 | |
NGC 5297 is an 11.7 mag barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Hounds , about 112 million light years from the Milky Way and in gravitational interaction with NGC 5296 .
The object was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cB, mE 60 degrees np-sf, vsBM".
NGC 5297 group ( LGG 358 )
| Galaxy | Alternative name | Distance / million Lj |
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| NGC 5297 | PGC 48815 | 112 |
| NGC 5296 | PGC 48811 | 105 |
| NGC 5336 | PGC 49250 | 113 |
| PGC 48989 | UGC 8733 | 108 |
| PGC 49299 | UGC 8798 | 106 |