NGC 5399
| Galaxy NGC 5399 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 59 m 31.4 s |
| declination | + 34 ° 46 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 '× 0.3' |
| Position angle | 8 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 370 |
| Redshift | 0.012225 ± 0.000047 |
| Radial velocity | (3665 ± 14) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(167 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (51.1 ± 3.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5399 • UGC 8912 • PGC 49799 • CGCG 191-027 • MCG + 06-31-39 • IRAS 13573 + 3500 • 2MASX J13593143 + 3446244 • GC 3735 • H III 411 • h 1724 • LDCE 1021 NED007 | |
NGC 5399 is a 14.0 likes bright spiral radio galaxy from the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation hunting dogs and 167 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 1, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "eF, vS".
Web links
- NGC 5399. SIMBAD, accessed February 26, 2016 .
- NGC 5399. DSO Browser, accessed February 26, 2016 .
- Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 5350 - 5399. Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
- Hartmut Frommert: Revised NGC Data for NGC 5399. SEDS, accessed on February 26, 2016 (English).