NGC 5612
| Galaxy NGC 5612 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bird of paradise |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 34 m 01.2 s |
| declination | -78 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 63 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009003 +/- 0.000137 |
| Radial velocity | 2699 +/- 41 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(113 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (34.6 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 23, 1835 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5612 • PGC 52057 • ESO 22-G001 • IRAS 14281-7809 • SGC 142811-7810.1 • GC 3879 • h 3567 • LDCE 1118 NED001 | |
NGC 5612 is a 12.2 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation bird of paradise and about 113 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 23, 1835 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope, which "very faint, elongated, gradually brighter in the middle; with a feeble appearance of stars, but I have hardly a doubt of its being a nebula ”.