NGC 5436
| Galaxy NGC 5436 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 03 m 41.1 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 34 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0-a / AGN |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 126 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022529 +/- 0.000090 |
| Radial velocity | 6754 +/- 27 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(301 ± 21) x 10 6 ly (92.4 ± 6.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Temple |
| Discovery date | June 28, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5436 • UGC 8971 • PGC 50104 • CGCG 074-071 • MCG + 02-36-25 • LDCE 1042 NED004 | |
NGC 5436 is a 14.0 mag bright lens-shaped galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S0-a in the constellation Bear Guardian and about 301 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered, together with the neighboring galaxies NGC 5437 and NGC 5438 , on June 28, 1883 by Wilhelm Tempel during a single observation.
Web links
- NGC 5436. SIMBAD, accessed March 3, 2016 .
- NGC 5436. DSO Browser, accessed March 3, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5436. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 3, 2016 (English).