NGC 5313
| Galaxy NGC 5313 |
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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 44.3 s |
| declination | + 39 ° 59 ′ 05 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 43 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
NGC 5371 group LGG 361 |
| Redshift | 0.008466 ± 0.000027 |
| Radial velocity | 2538 ± 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(117 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (35.8 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 14, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5313 • UGC 8744 • PGC 49069 • CGCG 218-054 • MCG + 07-28-074 • IRAS 13475 + 4013 • 2MASX J13494435 + 3959045 • GC 3665 • H II 711 • h 1677 • NVSS J134944 + 395905 • LDCE 1006 NED004 | |
NGC 5313 is a 12.1 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 117 million light years from the Milky Way and about 60,000 ly in diameter.
NGC 5313 is part of a galaxy group also known as the Hickson Compact Group 68 . This group includes the galaxies NGC 5311 , 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 “pB, cL, iF”.