NGC 5520
| Galaxy NGC 5520 |
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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 22.8 s |
| declination | + 50 ° 20 ′ 54 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 66 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 372 |
| Redshift | 0.006261 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 1877 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(89 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (27.3 ± 1.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5520 • UGC 9097 • PGC 50728 • CGCG 272-043 • MCG + 08-26-013 • IRAS 14105 + 5034 • 2MASX J14122277 + 5020543 • GC 3812 • H III 676 • GALEX ASC J141222.77 + 502053.8 • LDCE 1043 NED010 | |
NGC 5520 is a 12.4 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is estimated to be 89 million light years from the Milky Way and about 50,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on May 15, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cF, cS, lE nearly in parallel".