NGC 5601
| Galaxy NGC 5601 |
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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 22 m 53.3 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 18 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 503-002 |
| Redshift | 0.017505 ± 0.000162 |
| Radial velocity | 5248 ± 49 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(239 ± 17) x 10 6 ly (73.2 ± 5.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Robert Ball |
| Discovery date | March 27, 1867 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5601 • PGC 51370 • CGCG 220-009 • MCG + 07-30-006 • 2MASX J14225329 + 4018344 • GC 5770 • GALEX ASC J142253.26 + 401833.2 | |
NGC 5601 is a 14.7 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Bear Keeper in the northern sky . It is an estimated 239 million light years from the Milky Way and about 55,000 light years in diameter.
The galaxies NGC 5582 , NGC 5598 , NGC 5603 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Robert Ball on March 27, 1867 .
Web links
- NGC 5601. SIMBAD , accessed March 20, 2016 .
- NGC 5601. DSO Browser, accessed March 20, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5601. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).