NGC 5597
| Galaxy NGC 5597 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Libra |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 24 m 27.4 s |
| declination | -16 ° 45 ′ 46 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) cd / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 1.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 95 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008950 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 2683 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(117 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (35.8 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 14, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5597 • PGC 51456 • MCG -03-37-02 • IRAS 14216-1632 • VV 446 • GC 3866 • H III 122 • h 1793 • | |
NGC 5597 is a 12.0 likes bright barred spiral galaxy of Hubble type SBCD in the constellation Libra and about 117 million light-years from the Milky Way center. It is in gravitational interaction with NGC 5595 and was discovered together with it on May 14, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who marked it with "Two, Np - Sf The following eF, 1 ′ diameter, nearly round. The preceding [NGC 5595] vF, vS, R, distance 5 ′ “described.
Web links
- NGC 5597. DSO Browser, accessed March 19, 2016 .
- SIMBAD query