NGC 5760
| Galaxy NGC 5760 |
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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 47 m 42.2 s |
| declination | + 18 ° 30 ′ 07 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 96 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019700 ± 0.000160 |
| Radial velocity | (5906 ± 48) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(266 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (81.6 ± 5.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 24, 1791 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5760 • UGC 9531 • PGC 52833 • CGCG 105-028 • MCG + 03-38-15 • IRAS F14453 + 1841 • 2MASX J14474224 + 1830074 • GC 3995 • H III 885 • h 1879 • | |
NGC 5760 is a 13.3 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 266 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 120,000 ly. In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies IC 1061 , IC 1062 , IC 4507 .
The object was discovered on May 24, 1791 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "eF, vS, E nearly in parallel".