NGC 5536
| Galaxy NGC 5536 |
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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 16 m 23.8 s |
| declination | + 39 ° 30 ′ 08 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBa |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 144 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019507 ± 0.000053 |
| Radial velocity | 5848 ± 16 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(265 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (81.3 ± 5.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 29, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5536 • UGC 9136 • PGC 50986 • MCG + 07-29-057 • IRAS 14143 + 3944 • 2MASX J14162391 + 3930084 • GC 3827 • H III 731 • h 1768 • GALEX ASC J141623.95 + 393008.5 • LDCE 1044 NED003 | |
NGC 5536 is a 13.6 likes bright barred spiral galaxy of Hubble type SBa in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is estimated to be 265 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 95,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5515 , NGC 5541 , IC 990 , among others .
The Type Ia supernova candidate ASASSN -15gw is observed here.
The object was discovered on April 29, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS".