NGC 5300
| Galaxy NGC 5300 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 48 m 16 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 57 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (r) c |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.9 ′ × 2.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 362 |
| Redshift | 0.003906 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | (1171 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(51 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (15.6 ± 1.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | February 2, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5300 • UGC 8727 • PGC 48959 • CGCG 045-108 • MCG + 01-35-038 • IRAS 13457 + 0411 • 2MASX J13481608 + 0357032 • GC 3655 • H II-533 • h 1669 • HIPASS J1348 + 03 • LDCE 1015 NED001 | |
NGC 5300 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Virgo north of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 51 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 60,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 939 , IC 940 and IC 943 .
The object was discovered on February 2, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel with the help of his 18.7-inch mirror telescope and was later added to the New General Catalog by Dreyer .