NGC 5576
| Galaxy NGC 5576 |
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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 21 m 03.7 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 16 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E3 |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.80 × 2.7 |
| Position angle | 95 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 379 |
| Redshift | 0.005023 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (1506 +/- 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(67 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (20.4 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 30, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5576 • UGC 9183 • PGC 51275 • CGCG 047-020 • MCG + 01-37-007 • 2MASX J14210369 + 0316157 • GC 3851 • H I 146 • h 1783 • LDCE 1076 NED009 | |
NGC 5576 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E3 in the constellation Virgo. It is an estimated 67 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly. The galaxy forms an optical pair with NGC 5574 .
The galaxies NGC 5560 , NGC 5566 , NGC 5569 , NGC 5577 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on April 30, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, which she labeled “Two; the preceding [NGC 5574] pB, pL, E, distance 3 ′ or 4 ′ sp-nf. The following [NGC 5576] cB, R, pL ”described.