NGC 5637
| Galaxy NGC 5637 |
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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 59.6 s |
| declination | + 23 ° 11 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 7 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017502 +/- 0.000027 |
| Radial velocity | 5247 +/- 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(237 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (72.6 ± 5.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 10, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5637 • UGC 9293 • PGC 51736 • CGCG 133-069 • MCG + 04-34-37 • IRAS 14267 + 2324 • KUG 1426 + 234 • GC 3903 • H II 357 • h 1819 • | |
NGC 5637 is a 13.9 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Scd in the constellation Bootes and about 237 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 10, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "F, S, iF, lbM".