NGC 5572
| Galaxy NGC 5572 |
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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 35.3 s |
| declination | + 36 ° 08 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 170 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.024804 +/- 0.000055 |
| Radial velocity | 7436 +/- 16 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(336 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (103.0 ± 7.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | May 13, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5572 • UGC 9173 • PGC 51196 • CGCG 191-079, 192-002 • MCG + 06-31-99 • IRAS 14174 + 3622 • KUG 1417 + 363 • Mrk 677b • | |
NGC 5572 is a 14.3 likes bright spiral radio galaxy from the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bootes . It is estimated to be 336 million light years from the Milky Way and about 90,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered by Édouard Stephan on May 13, 1883 .
Web links
- NGC 5572. SIMBAD, accessed March 15, 2016 .
- NGC 5572. DSO Browser, accessed March 15, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5572. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).