NGC 5635
| Galaxy NGC 5635 |
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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 28 m 31.7 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 24 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb / pec / LINER / Sy3 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.3 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 65 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 383 |
| Redshift | 0.014397 +/- 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 4316 +/- 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(196 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (60.0 ± 4.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5635 • UGC 9283 • PGC 51706 • CGCG 163-058 • MCG + 05-34-49 • IRAS 14263 + 2737 • 2MASX J14283173 + 2724326 • GC 3901 • H III 132 • h 1815 • HARO 41 | |
NGC 5635 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bear Keeper . It is estimated to be 196 million light years from the Milky Way , about 130,000 ly in diameter, and classified as a Seyfert 3 galaxy .
The object was discovered on May 1, 1785 by the astronomer William Herschel with the help of his 18.7 inch reflector telescope and was later included by Johan Dreyer in his New General Catalog .
Image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5635 with the Hubble Space Telescope
