NGC 5619
Galaxy NGC 5619 |
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SDSS recording | |
AladinLite | |
Constellation | Virgin |
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 |
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.