NGC 5379
| Galaxy NGC 5379 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| 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 34.4 s |
| declination | + 59 ° 44 ′ 35 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB0-a |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 60 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 360 |
| Redshift | 0.005917 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 1774 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(85 ± 6) x 10 6 ly (26.1 ± 1.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 24, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5379 • UGC 8860 • PGC 49508 • CGCG 295-026 • MCG + 10-20-49 • IRAS F13539 + 5959 • GC 3720 • H I 239 • LDCE 1005 NED007 | |
NGC 5379 is a 13.0 mag bright, lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble type SB0-a in the constellation Great Bear and about 85 million light years from the Milky Way. Together with NGC 5322 it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy and was discovered on April 24, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cB, pL, E, mbM".