NGC 5604
| Galaxy NGC 5604 |
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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 24 m 42.8 s |
| declination | -03 ° 12 ′ 44 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 15 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009166 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 2748 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(121 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (37.2 ± 2.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5604 • PGC 51471 • CGCG 019-016 • MCG + 00-37-003 • IRAS 14221-0259 • 2MASX J14244280-0312437 • GC 3872 • H III 668 • h 1799 • HIPASS J1424-03 | |
NGC 5604 is a 12.8 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 121 million light years from the Milky Way and about 70,000 light years across.
The supernovae SN 2013aq (Type-IIP) and PSN J14244257-0312309 (Type-II) were observed here.
The object was discovered on April 15, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cF, S, resolvable".