NGC 5323
| Galaxy NGC 5323 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 45 m 36.5 s |
| declination | + 76 ° 49 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 163 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006601 +/- 0.000250 |
| Radial velocity | 1979 +/- 75 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(96 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (29.3 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 20, 1797 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5323 • UGC 8719 • PGC 48785 • CGCG 353-025 • MCG + 13-10-12 • IRAS 13451 + 7704 • GC 3672 • H II 899 • h 1689 • | |
NGC 5323 is a 13.5 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Ursa Minor . It is estimated to be 96 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on December 20, 1797 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “F, S, E nearly in meridian, 1 ′ long”.