NGC 5320
| Galaxy NGC 5320 |
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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 50 m 20.4 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 21 ′ 58 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.6 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 18 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 361 |
| Redshift | 0.008736 +/- 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 2619 +/- 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(121 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (37.0 ± 2.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5320 • UGC 8749 • PGC 49112 • CGCG 218-056, 219-001 • MCG + 07-28-76 • IRAS 13482 + 4136 • GC 3669 • H II 669 • h 1682 • LDCE 1006 NED005 | |
NGC 5320 is a 12.2 mag bright bar -spiral Seyfert galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Hounds . It is estimated to be 121 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, pL, vgmbM".