NGC 5678
| Galaxy NGC 5678 |
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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 32 m 05.6 s |
| declination | + 57 ° 55 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) b / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.3 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 5 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006378 + / -0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | 1912 +/- 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(92 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (28.1 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5678 • UGC 9358 • PGC 51932 • CGCG 296-009 • MCG + 10-21-005 • IRAS 14306 + 5808 • 2MASX J14320558 + 5755171 • GC 3934 • H I 237 • h 1843 • LDCE 1056 NED004 | |
NGC 5678 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble-type SAB (rs) b in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 92 million light years from the Milky Way and about 85,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on April 17, 1789 by William Herschel .