NGC 5538
| Galaxy NGC 5538 |
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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 17 m 42.5 s |
| declination | + 07 ° 28 ′ 36 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 63 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023036 +/- 0.000090 |
| Radial velocity | 6906 +/- 27 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(309 ± 22) · 10 6 ly (94.6 ± 6.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Bindon Stoney |
| Discovery date | March 6, 1851 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5538 • PGC 91351, 51056 • CGCG 046-083 • GC 3830, 5762 • | |
NGC 5538 is a 14.7 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Scd in the constellation Bootes and about 309 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on March 6, 1851 by Bindon Stoney , an assistant to William Parsons .
Web links
- NGC 5538. SIMBAD, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- NGC 5538. DSO Browser, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5538. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 13, 2016 (English).