NGC 5410
| Galaxy NGC 5410 |
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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 | 14 h 00 m 54.6 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 59 ′ 19 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 75 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012469 +/- 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 3738 +/- 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(171 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (52.4 ± 3.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5410 • UGC 8931 • PGC 49893 • CGCG 219-041 • MCG + 07-29-34 • IRAS 13588 + 4113 • KUG 1358 + 412A • 2MASX J14005456 + 4059181 • VV 256a • GC 3743 • H II 672 • h 1729 • | |
NGC 5410 is a 13.2 mag light barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB? in the constellation hounds . It is an estimated 171 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 75,000 ly. Together with UGC 8932 , it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy.
On June 1, 2014, a supernova occurred 0.2 "west and 19.4" south of the center of NGC 5410 , which is listed as SN 2014as in the Asiago Supernova Catalog .
The object was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pF, pS, bM".