NGC 5427
| Galaxy NGC 5427 |
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| The galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 (left) imaged with the VLT | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 03 m 25.6 s |
| declination | -06 ° 01 ′ 51 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) c / pec / Sy2 / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.9 ′ × 2.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 66 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 374 |
| Redshift | 0.008733 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | (2618 ± 3) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(114 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.1 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 5, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5427 • UGC UGCA 381 • PGC 50084 • MCG -01-36-003 • IRAS 14008-0547 • 2MASX J14032604-0601509 • Arp 271 • VV 21a • GC 3751 • H II 310 • h 1735 • LDCE 1026 NED004 | |
NGC 5427 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type SA (s) c in the constellation Virgo the northern sky . It is an estimated 114 million light years from the Milky Way and is listed as a Seyfert-2 galaxy . It forms the interacting galaxy pair Arp 271 with NGC 5426 .
Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This pair of galaxies belongs to the class double galaxies with linked arms .
The object was discovered on March 5, 1785 by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
- Gemini observatory
- NOAO
- ESO: The Final Look from VIMOS May 21, 2018
- ARP ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES
- Seligman Arp
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7