NGC 5636
| Galaxy NGC 5636 |
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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 29 m 39.0 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 15 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (r) 0+ |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 40 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 386 |
| Redshift | 0.005821 +/- 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 1745 +/- 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(78 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (23.8 ± 1.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 30, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5636 • UGC 9304 • PGC 51785 • CGCG 047-062 • MCG + 01-37-17 • GC 3902, 3905 • H II 581 • h 1816 • | |
NGC 5636 is a 13.2 mag bright, lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble-type SB0-a in the constellation of Virgo and about 78 million light-years from the Milky Way.
It has a strong interaction with NGC 5638 and was discovered together with it on April 30, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who called it “Two. The southern [NGC 5638] pB, pL, R, gbM. The northern [NGC 5636] eF, cL, distance 2 ′ “.