NGC 5392
| Galaxy NGC 5392 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 59 m 24.8 s |
| declination | -03 ° 12 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 +? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.024477 +/- 0.000080 |
| Radial velocity | 7338 +/- 24 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(326 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (99.9 ± 7.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5392 • PGC 49792 • CGCG 018-013 • MCG + 00-36-05 • 2MASX J13592475-0312330 • GC 3728 • H III 666 • h 1720 • LDCE 1030 NED001 | |
NGC 5392 is a 13.9 mag bright, lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0-a in the constellation Virgo. It is estimated to be 326 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 120,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 5400 and IC 968 .
The object was discovered on April 15, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "eF, vS".