NGC 5376
| Galaxy NGC 5376 |
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| SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 55 m 16.0 s |
| declination | + 59 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (r) b? / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 70 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 5322 group LGG 360 |
| Redshift | 0.006921 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 2075 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(99 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.2 ± 2.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 24, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5376 • UGC 8852 • PGC 49489 • CGCG 295-025 • MCG + 10-20-047 • IRAS 13536 + 5945 • 2MASX J13551606 + 5930241 • H I 238, II 844 • GALEX ASC J135516.03 + 593024.7 • LDCE 1005 NED006 | |
NGC 5376 is a 12.2 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBab in the constellation Ursa Major at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 99 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 60,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5372 , NGC 5379 , NGC 5389 , NGC 5402 , among others .
The object was discovered on April 24, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cB, pL, iR, vgmbM".