NGC 5347
| Galaxy NGC 5347 |
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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 53 m 17.9 s |
| declination | + 33 ° 29 ′ 27 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (rs) ab / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | CVn I group M94 group NGC 4736 group LGG 291 |
| Redshift | 0.007789 ± 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | 2335 ± 20 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(107 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (32.8 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 2, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5347 • UGC 8805 • PGC 49342 • CGCG 191-007 • MCG + 06-31-007 • IRAS 13510 + 3344 • KUG 1351 + 337A • 2MASX J13531785 + 3329267 • GC 3687 • H II 424 • h 1695 • NVSS J135318 + 332925 | |
NGC 5347 is a 12.6 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy Seyfert galaxy with active galaxy cores of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is an estimated 107 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 50,000 ly.
Together with M 94 , NGC 4228 , NGC 4244 , NGC 4395 and NGC 4449 , it is a member of the Canes Venatici (I) group .
The object was discovered on May 2, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "F, pL, lbM".