NGC 5543
| Galaxy NGC 5543 |
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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 18 m 04.1 s |
| declination | + 07 ° 39 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.5 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 132 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023656 +/- 0.000177 |
| Radial velocity | 7092 +/- 53 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(317 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (97.1 ± 6.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | April 26, 1865 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5543 • PGC 51079 • CGCG 046-088 • GC 5763 • LDCE 1042 NED020 | |
NGC 5543 is a 14.7 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Bootes and about 317 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 26, 1865 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest .
Web links
- NGC 5543. SIMBAD, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- NGC 5543. DSO Browser, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5543. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 13, 2016 (English).