NGC 5777
| Galaxy NGC 5777 |
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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 51 m 17.8 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 58 ′ 41 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc / NLAGN |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.1 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 144 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007155 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (2145 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(102 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (31.4 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5777 • UGC 9568 • PGC 53043 • CGCG 296-018 • MCG + 10-21-34 • IRAS 14499 + 5910 • GC 4006 • H III 806 • | |
NGC 5777 is a 13.3 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Dragon and about 102 million parsecs from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 17, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS, lE".