NGC 5574
| Galaxy NGC 5574 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 20 m 56.0 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 14 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB0-? sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 63 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 379 |
| Redshift | 0.005300 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (1589 +/- 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(70 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (21.6 ± 1.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 30, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5574 • UGC 9181 • PGC 51270 • CGCG 047-018 • MCG + 01-37-06 • GC 3850 • H I 145 • h 1782 • LDCE 1076 NED008 | |
NGC 5574 is a 12.2 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type I / SB0 in the constellation Virgo and about 70 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
Together with NGC 5576, it forms an optical double galaxy and was discovered on April 30, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who marked it with “Two; the preceding [NGC 5574] pB, pL, E, distance 3 ′ or 4 ′ sp-nf. The following [NGC 5576] cB, R, pL ”described.