NGC 5643
| Galaxy data from NGC 5643 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | wolf |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 32 m 40.7 s |
| declination | -44 ° 10 ′ 28 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 10.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 4.7 ′ × 4.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 153 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | (3999 ± 7) · 10 −6 |
| Radial velocity | (1199 ± 2) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(48 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (14.6 ± 1.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 1, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5643 • PGC 51969 • ESO 272-G016 • MCG -07-30-003 • IRAS 14294-4357 • 2MASX J14324077-4410285 • GC 3909 • h 3572 • AM 1429-435 • Dun 469? | |
NGC 5643 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SAB (rs) c in the constellation Wolf in the southern sky . It is an estimated 48 million light years away from the Milky Way , has a disk diameter of about 83,000 ly, and is classified as a Seyfert-2 galaxy .
The object was discovered by John Herschel on June 1, 1834 .
Web links
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- ESO: Hidden in the Dust May 28, 2018