NGC 5696
| Galaxy NGC 5696 |
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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 36 m 57.1 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 49 ′ 41 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 45 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018249 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 5471 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(249 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (76.4 ± 5.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 18, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5696 • UGC 9415 • PGC 52235 • CGCG 220-036 • MCG + 07-30-36 • IRAS 14350 + 4202 • GC 3951 • H II 648 • h 1850 • LDCE 1071 NED006 | |
NGC 5696 is a 13.0 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Bootes and about 249 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on March 18, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, pL, lbM".