NGC 5337
| Galaxy NGC 5337 |
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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 52 m 23.0 s |
| declination | + 39 ° 41 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 20 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 363 |
| Redshift | 0.007222 ± 0.000057 |
| Radial velocity | (2165 ± 17) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(100 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.7 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 14, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5337 • UGC 8789 • PGC 49275 • CGCG 219-012 • MCG + 07-29-004 • IRAS F13502 + 3956 • 2MASX J13522304 + 3941140 • GC 3683 • H III 698 • h 1691 • GALEX ASC J135222.97 + 394114.9 • LDCE 1006 NED008 | |
NGC 5337 is a 12.5 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is estimated to be 100 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 50,000 ly. In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 5326 , NGC 5346 , NGC 5353 , IC 4336 .
The object was discovered on January 14, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, S".