NGC 5362
| Galaxy NGC 5362 |
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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 54 m 53.3 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 18 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb? pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 ′ × 1 ′ |
| Position angle | 88 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 363 |
| Redshift | 0.007255 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | (2175 ± 4) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(101 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.9 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5362 • UGC 8835 • PGC 49464 • CGCG 219-026 • MCG + 07-29-016 • IRAS 13527 + 4133 • KUG 1352 + 415 • 2MASX J13545329 + 4118487 • GC 3701 • H II 671 • LDCE 1006 NED013 | |
NGC 5362 is a Hubble-type Sb spiral galaxy in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 101 million light years from the Milky Way and about 65,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on April 9, 1787 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .