NGC 5505
| Galaxy NGC 5505 |
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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 31.6 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 18 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBa |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014227 +/- 0.000090 |
| Radial velocity | 4265 +/- 27 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(191 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (58.6 ± 4.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | June 6, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5505 • UGC 9092 • PGC 50745 • CGCG 074-138 • MCG + 02-36-048 • IRAS 14101 + 1332 • KUG 1410 + 135 • 2MASX J14123202 + 1318160 • GALEX ASC J141231.82 + 131817.4 | |
NGC 5505 is a 13.0 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy with pronounced emission lines of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 191 million light years from the Milky Way and about 55,000 ly in diameter. Due to its unusually bright core , it is believed that NGC 5505 may be a Seyfert or a starburst galaxy .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on June 6, 1886 .
Web links
- NGC 5505. SIMBAD, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- NGC 5505. DSO Browser, accessed March 10, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5505. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 10, 2016 (English).