NGC 5667
| Galaxy NGC 5667 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 30 m 22.9 s |
| declination | + 59 ° 28 ′ 11 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd: / pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 168 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006481 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 1943 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(93 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (28.5 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5667 • UGC 9344 • PGC 51830 • CGCG 296-008 • MCG + 10-21-004 • IRAS 14289 + 5941 • 2MASX J14302288 + 5928108 • GC 3925 • H II 807 • NSA 165107 • LDCE 1056 NED003 | |
NGC 5667 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 93 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 17, 1789 .