NGC 5301
| Galaxy NGC 5301 |
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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 24.7 s |
| declination | + 46 ° 06 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) bc: / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 4.0 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 151 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.005014 +/- 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | 1503 +/- 23 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(71 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (21.8 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 11, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5301 • UGC 8711 • PGC 48816 • CGCG 246-023 • MCG + 08-25-41 • IRAS 13443 + 4621 • 2MASX J13462460 + 4606266 • GC 3656 • H II 688 • h 1670 • LDCE 1043 NED001 | |
NGC 5301 is a 12.3 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type SBc in the constellation of hunting dogs . It is an estimated 71 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on May 11, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflecting telescope, who described it as “F, mE 15 degrees sp-nf, lbM, 4 ′ long, 0.75 ′ broad”.