NGC 5568
| Galaxy NGC 5568 |
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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 19 m 21.3 s |
| declination | + 35 ° 05 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 96 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.028298 +/- 0.000094 |
| Radial velocity | 8484 +/- 28 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(383 ± 27) · 10 6 ly (117.3 ± 8.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | May 27, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5568 • PGC 51168 • CGCG 191-077 • MCG + 06-31-098 • IRAS F14172 + 3519 • 2MASX J14192133 + 3505318 • GALEX ASC J141921.32 + 350530.9 | |
NGC 5568 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is estimated to be 383 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 90,000 ly. It is likely to form a gravitationally bound galaxy pair with NGC 5567 .
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5579 , NGC 5580 , NGC 5588 , NGC 5589 .
The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on May 27, 1886 .