NGC 5492
| Galaxy NGC 5492 |
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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 10 m 35.2 s |
| declination | + 19 ° 36 ′ 44 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb / P |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007575 +/- 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 2271 +/- 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(103 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (31.5 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 20, 1792 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5492 • UGC 9065 • PGC 50613 • CGCG 103-106 • MCG + 03-36-74 • IRAS 14082 + 1950 • GC 3800 • H II 876 • h 1754 • | |
NGC 5492 is a 12.9 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb / P in the constellation Bootes and about 103 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 20, 1792 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, vS".