NGC 5541
| Galaxy NGC 5541 |
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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 31.8 s |
| declination | + 39 ° 35 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 12 ° |
| Surface brightness | 11.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025678 +/- 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 7698 +/- 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(348 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (106.7 ± 7.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 29, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5541, 5541-1 • UGC 9139 • PGC 50991 • CGCG 219-065 • MCG + 07-29-59 • IRAS 14144 + 3949 • GC 3831 • H III 732 • h 1769 • | |
NGC 5541 , also NGC 5541-1 called, is a 12.7 likes bright spiral radio galaxy from the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Bootes and about 348 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
Together with the non-NGC object PGC 4540101 ( NGC 5541-2 ), it forms an interacting pair of galaxies and was discovered on April 29, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflecting telescope, who marked it with “vF, vS , lE “described.