NGC 5609
| Galaxy NGC 5609 |
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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 23 m 48.3 s |
| declination | + 34 ° 50 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.4 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 99 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.100588 +/- 0.000177 |
| Radial velocity | 30,156 +/- 53 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(1351 ± 95) x 10 6 ly (414.2 ± 29.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Bindon Stoney |
| Discovery date | March 1, 1851 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5609 • PGC 3088538 • 2MASX J14234825 + 3450350 • GC 3881 • LEDA 3088538 • GALEX ASC J142348.31 + 345034.2 | |
NGC 5609 is a 15.7 mag bright spiral galaxy with pronounced emission lines of the Hubble type "Sa" in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 1.4 billion light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 160,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 5580 , NGC 5613 , NGC 5614 , NGC 5615 .
The object was discovered on March 1, 1851 by Bindon Stoney , an assistant to William Parsons .
Web links
- PGC 3088538. SIMBAD, accessed March 20, 2016 .
- NGC 5609. DSO Browser, accessed March 20, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5609. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).