NGC 5669
| Galaxy NGC 5669 |
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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 32 m 43.5 s |
| declination | + 09 ° 53 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) cd |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.0 ′ × 2.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 50 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.004563 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 1368 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(62 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (18.9 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 19, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5669 • UGC 9353 • PGC 51973 • CGCG 075-064 • MCG + 02-37-021 • IRAS 14302 + 1006 • KUG 1430 + 101 • 2MASX J14324347 + 0953254 • GC 3927 • H II 79 • HIPASS J1432 + 09 • LDCE 1076 NED016 | |
NGC 5669 is a 11.6 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy with pronounced H-II regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 62 million light years from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 5666 .
The supernovae SN 2013ab (Type-IIP) and PSN J14324449 + 0953123 (Type-II) were observed here.
The object was discovered on March 19, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “FLR lbM r 4 or 5 ′ diameter”.
Galaxy NGC 5669 (Liverpool Telescope La Palma)
