NGC 5602
| Galaxy NGC 5602 |
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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 18.8 s |
| declination | + 50 ° 30 ′ 05 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 166 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 5676 group LGG 384 |
| Redshift | 0.007438 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | 2230 ± 23 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(105 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (32.2 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5602 • UGC 9210 • PGC 51340 • CGCG 273-004 • MCG + 09-24-002 • 2MASX J14221883 + 5030051 • GC 3870 • H II 694 • GALEX ASC J142218.90 + 503005.6 • LDCE 1043 NED011 | |
NGC 5602 is a 12.7 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 105 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on May 15, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “pF, pS, lE, mbM”.