NGC 5599
| Galaxy NGC 5599 |
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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 23 m 50.6 s |
| declination | + 06 ° 34 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 166 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.024087 +/- 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 7221 +/- 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(323 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (98.9 ± 6.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 12, 1793 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5599 • UGC 9218 • PGC 51423 • CGCG 047-030 • MCG + 01-37-10 • IRAS 14213 + 0647 • GC 3868 • H III 927 • h 1794 • LDCE 1042 NED028 | |
NGC 5599 is a 13.8 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Virgo and about 323 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 12, 1793 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, S".