NGC 5622
| Galaxy NGC 5622 |
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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 26 m 12.2 s |
| declination | + 48 ° 33 ′ 50 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Position angle | 90 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012892 +/- 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 3865 +/- 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(178 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (54.5 ± 3.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 15, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5622 • UGC 9248 • PGC 51541 • CGCG 247-028 • MCG + 08-26-32 • IRAS 14244 + 4847 • GC 3890 • H III 677 • h 1809 • | |
NGC 5622 is a 13.2 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bear Keeper and about 178 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on May 15, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, pS, lE".