NGC 5515
| Galaxy NGC 5515 |
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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 38.2 s |
| declination | + 19 ° 38 ′ 37 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 108 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025749 ± 0.000120 |
| Radial velocity | 7719 ± 36 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(349 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (106.9 ± 7.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 16, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5515 • UGC 9096 • PGC 50750 • CGCG 219-057 • MCG + 07-29-52 • IRAS 14105 + 3932 • KUG 1410 + 395 • 2MASX J14123812 + 3918369 • GC 3810 • H III 685 • h 1760 • GALEX ASC J141238 .16 + 391836.1 | |
NGC 5515 is a 13.0 mag bright spiral Seyfert galaxy (type 1) of the Hubble type "Sab" in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 349 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 130,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5536 , NGC 5497 , IC 990 , among others .
It was discovered on May 16, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, cS, R, sbM".