NGC 5714
| Galaxy NGC 5714 |
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| Taken using the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 38 m 11.5 s |
| declination | + 46 ° 38 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.2 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 82 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007462 +/- 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 2237 +/- 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(105 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (32.2 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 12, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5714 • UGC 9431 • PGC 52307 • CGCG 248-014 • MCG + 08-27-11 • IRAS 14363 + 4651 • GC 3965 • H III 675 • h 1861 • LDCE 1062 NED003 | |
NGC 5714 is a 13.4 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Bootes and about 105 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on May 12, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "" vF, pS, iF, sp 2 small unequal stars ".
Web links
- NGC 5714. SIMBAD, accessed April 14, 2016 .
- NGC 5714. DSO Browser, accessed April 14, 2016 .
- astronews.com: Picture of the day March 27, 2018