NGC 5616
| Galaxy NGC 5616 |
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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 24 m 20.7 s |
| declination | + 36 ° 27 ′ 41 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 157 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.028143 +/- 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 8437 +/- 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(381 ± 27) x 10 6 ly (116.7 ± 8.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5616 • UGC 9231 • PGC 51448 • CGCG 192-015 • MCG + 06-32-26 • IRAS 14222 + 3641 • GC 3884 • H III 419 • h 1805 • LDCE 1060 NED001 | |
NGC 5616 is a 13.8 mag light barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Bear Guardian and about 381 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on May 1, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflecting telescope, who described it as "vF, vS, E, easily resolvable".