NGC 5630

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Galaxy
NGC 5630
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Bear keeper
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 14 h 27 m 36.6 s
declination + 41 ° 15 ′ 28 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sdm  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.6 mag
Angular expansion 2.2 ′ × 0.7 ′
Position angle 98 °
Surface brightness 13.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.008856 +/- 0.000017  
Radial velocity 2655 +/- 5 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(123 ± 8)  ·  10 6  ly
(37.7 ± 2.6)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 9, 1787
Catalog names
NGC  5630 • UGC  9270 • PGC  51635 • CGCG  220-018 • MCG  + 07-30-14 • IRAS  14256 + 4128 • GC  3896 • H  II 674 • h  1814 •

NGC 5630 is a 13.0 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type SD in the constellation Bootes and about 123 million light-years from the Milky Way center.

It was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “pB, E nearly in parallel, 1.5 ′ long, 0.5 ′ broad”.

Web links

  • NGC 5630. SIMBAD, accessed March 20, 2016 .
  • NGC 5630. DSO Browser, accessed March 20, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 5630
  3. Seligman
  4. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5630. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).