NGC 5615
| Galaxy NGC 5615 |
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| Image of the galaxies NGC 5613 , NGC 5614 and NGC 5615 (from right to left) with an 80 cm telescope; the galaxy NGC 5615 emerges brightly in the middle. | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 24 m 06.5 s |
| declination | + 34 ° 51 ′ 54 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.4 '× 0.4' |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 380 |
| Redshift | 0.013151 +/- 0.000085 |
| Radial velocity | (3943 +/- 25) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(180 ± 13) x 10 6 ly (55.1 ± 3.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Bindon Stoney |
| Discovery date | March 1, 1851 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5615 • PGC 51435 • MCG + 06-32-023 • Arp 178 NED02 • VV 77b • | |
NGC 5615 is a galaxy of Hubble type S? in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . Together with NGC 5613 and NGC 5614 , it forms the interactive trio Arp 178 . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class galaxies with narrow opposing arms .
The galaxy was discovered on March 1, 1851 by the Irish astronomer Bindon Blood Stoney .
Web links
The galaxies NGC 5614 and, smaller NGC 5615, in a high-resolution image from the Hubble Space Telescope
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7