NGC 5349
| Galaxy NGC 5349 |
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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 13.1 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 52 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 76 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019140 ± 0.000117 |
| Radial velocity | 5738 ± 35 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(260 ± 18) · 10 6 ly (79.6 ± 5.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | RJ Mitchell |
| Discovery date | March 24, 1857 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5349 • UGC 8803 • PGC 49336 • CGCG 190-072 • 191-006 • MCG + 06-31-005 • IRAS 13510 + 3807 • 2MASX J13531316 + 3752592 • GC 3691 • HOLM 554B • LDCE 1018 NED003 | |
NGC 5349 is a 14.1 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type "SBb" in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is an estimated 260 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 130,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 5341 , NGC 5351 , IC 4339 , IC 4340 .
The object was discovered on March 24, 1857 by RJ Mitchell , an assistant to William Parsons .
Web links
- NGC 5349. SIMBAD, accessed February 14, 2016 .
- NGC 5349. DSO Browser, accessed February 14, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5349. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 14, 2016 .