NGC 5311
| Galaxy NGC 5311 |
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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 48 m 56.1 s |
| declination | + 39 ° 59 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 / a |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.6 ′ × 2.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 110 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
NGC 5371 group LGG 361 |
| Redshift | 0.009000 ± 0.000133 |
| Radial velocity | 2698 ± 40 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(124 ± 9) · 10 6 ly (38.0 ± 2.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 14, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5311 • UGC 8735 • PGC 49011 • CGCG 218-052 • MCG + 07-28-072 • IRAS 13467 + 4014 • 2MASX J13485605 + 3959068 • GC 3663 • H II 710 • h 1675 • NSA 56469 • LDCE 1006 NED003 | |
NGC 5311 is a 12.5 likes bright lenticular Blazar from Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Canes Venatici on the northern sky . It is estimated to be 124 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 ly in diameter.
NGC 5311 is part of a group of galaxies also known as the Hickson Compact Group 68 . This group includes the galaxies NGC 5313 , NGC 5350 , NGC 5353 , NGC 5354 , NGC 5355 and NGC 5358 .
The object was discovered on January 14, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "F, S".