NGC 5526
| Galaxy NGC 5526 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 13 m 51.8 s |
| declination | + 57 ° 46 ′ 13 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.3 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 136 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006685 |
| Radial velocity | 2004 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(95 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (29.2 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5526, 5526-1 • UGC 9115 • PGC 50832 • CGCG 295-040 • MCG + 10-20-85 • GC 3820 • H III 804, III 835 • h 1763 • LEDA 50832 | |
NGC 5526 , also known as NGC 5526-1 , is a 13.5 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Great Bear . It is estimated to be 95 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 200,000 ly. Together with the non-NGC object PGC 50803 ( NGC 5526-2 ), it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy.
The galaxies IC 995 and IC 996 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on April 17, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “eF, S, E, resolvable” and included it as “III 804”. During a second observation on March 17, 1790 he noted “eF, S, E but nearly R” for object “III-835”; He noticed and corrected his mistake only in 1820.