NGC 5638
| Galaxy NGC 5638 |
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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 40.4 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 14 ′ 00 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E1 |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.7 ′ × 2.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 386 |
| Redshift | 0.005591 ± 0.000014 |
| Radial velocity | 1676 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(75 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (22.9 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 30, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5638 • UGC 9308 • PGC 51787 • CGCG 047-063 • MCG + 01-37-18 • GC 3904 • H II 580 • h 1817 • LDCE 1076 NED013 | |
NGC 5638 is a 11.2 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E1 in the constellation Virgo and about 75 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It has a strong interaction with NGC 5636 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 ′ “.