NGC 5753
| Galaxy NGC 5753 |
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| from top to bottom: NGC 5752, NGC 5754, NGC 5755, NGC 5753 = Arp 297 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 45 m 18.9 s |
| declination | + 38 ° 48 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.6 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 153 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.032099 ± 0.000140 |
| Radial velocity | (9623 ± 42) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(434 ± 30) x 10 6 ly (133.2 ± 9.3) Mpc |
| diameter | 80,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Lawrence Parsons |
| Discovery date | April 1, 1878 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5753 • UGC 09507 NOTES01 • PGC 52695 • CGCG 220-053 • MCG + 07-30-062 • IRAS 14434 + 3859 • 2MASX J14451887 + 3848206 • Arp 297 NED02 • | |
NGC 5753 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is around 434 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 80,000 light years . Together with NGC 5755 and the pair of galaxies NGC 5752 and NGC 5754 , it forms the optical quartet Arp 297 . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This pair of galaxies belongs to the class of galaxies with long filaments .
The object was discovered on April 1, 1878 by Lawrence Parsons .
Web links
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7