NGC 5619
| Galaxy NGC 5619 |
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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 27 m 18.2 s |
| declination | + 04 ° 48 ′ 10 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 8 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 514 |
| Redshift | 0.027973 +/- 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 8386 +/- 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(374 ± 26) · 10 6 ly (114.8 ± 8.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 10, 1828 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5619, 5619A • UGC 9255 • PGC 51610 • CGCG 047-044 • MCG + 01-37-12 • IRAS 14248 + 0501 • VV 408 • GC 3887 • h 1806 • LDCE 1058 NED002 | |
NGC 5619 , also NGC 5619A called, is a 12.9 likes bright spiral radio galaxy from the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Virgo and about 374 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
Together with the non-NGC objects IC 1016 (also NGC 5619B ) and PGC 51622 (also NGC 5619C ) it forms a gravitationally bound three-part galaxy and was discovered on April 10, 1828 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope who "PB, S, R, vgbM" noted.