NGC 5312
| Galaxy NGC 5312 |
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| SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 49 m 50.6 s |
| declination | + 33 ° 37 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 / a / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 36 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014367 ± 0.000083 |
| Radial velocity | 4307 ± 25 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(195 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (59.8 ± 4.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 2, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5312 • PGC 49075 • CGCG 190-061 • MCG + 06-30-092 • 2MASX J13495059 + 3337179 • GC 3664 • H III 422 • h 1676 • GALEX ASC J134950.62 + 333718.2 • LDCE 1003 NED005 | |
NGC 5312 is a 13.9 mag bright lens-shaped galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 195 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 45,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5318 , NGC 5319 , NGC 5321 , NGC 5347 , among others .
The object was discovered on May 2, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, which she labeled “Two. Both eF, stellar, distance 4 ′ or 5 ′ nearly in meridian. The northern faintest ”. The second galaxy named is NGC 5318 .