NGC 5504
| Galaxy NGC 5504 |
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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 12 m 15.8 s |
| declination | + 15 ° 50 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017505 +/- 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 5248 +/- 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(235 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (72.1 ± 5.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 7, 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5504, 5404A • UGC 9085 • PGC 50718 • CGCG 103-114 • MCG + 03-36-081 • IRAS 14098 + 1604 • KUG 1409 + 160 • 2MASX J14121583 + 1550310 • SDSS J141215.81 + 155030.8 • USGC U603 NED07 | |
NGC 5504 , also NGC 5504A called, is a 13.0 likes bright barred spiral galaxy of Hubble type SBBC in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is estimated 235 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 90,000 ly. Together with the non-NGC objects IC 4383 ( NGC 5504B ) and PGC 50713 ( NGC 5504C ) it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy trio .
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 5522 .
The object was discovered on June 7, 1880 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 5504. SIMBAD, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- NGC 5504. DSO Browser, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5504. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 10, 2016 (English).