NGC 5437
| Galaxy NGC 5437 |
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| SDSS | |
| 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 47.3 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 31 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023573 ± 0.000093 |
| Radial velocity | 7067 ± 28 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(315 ± 22) · 10 6 ly (96.7 ± 6.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Temple |
| Discovery date | June 28, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5437 • IC 4365 • PGC 50113 • CGCG 074-074 • MCG + 02-36-28 • LDCE 1042 NED005 | |
NGC 5437 is a 14.3 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bear Guardian and about 315 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered, together with the neighboring galaxies NGC 5436 and NGC 5438 , on June 28, 1883 by Wilhelm Tempel during a single observation.
A second discovery and the resulting entry as IC 4365 followed on May 12, 1896 by Guillaume Bigourdan .
Web links
- NGC 5437. SIMBAD, accessed March 3, 2016 .
- NGC 5437. DSO Browser, accessed March 3, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5437. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 3, 2016 (English).