NGC 5351
| Galaxy NGC 5351 |
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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 53 m 27.7 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 54 ′ 54 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (r) b: |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.9 ′ × 1.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 366 |
| Redshift | 0.012042 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (3610 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(165 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (50.5 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 16, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5351 • UGC 8809 • PGC 49359 • CGCG 190-073 • 191-008 • MCG + 06-31-008 • IRAS 13513 + 3809 • KUG 1351 + 381 • GC 3689 • H II 697 • h 1697 • HOLM 554A • LDCE 1021 NED002 | |
NGC 5351 is a 12.2 mag bright bar spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is an estimated 165 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 140,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 5341 , NGC 5349 , IC 4339 , IC 4340 .
The object was discovered on May 16, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “F, E in the parallel, bM, 1.5 ′ long, 1 ′ broad”.