NGC 5792
| Galaxy NGC 5792 |
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| Taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Libra |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 58 m 22.7 s |
| declination | -01 ° 05 ′ 28 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 6.8 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 84 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006411 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | (1922 ± 4) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(86 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (26.3 ± 1.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5792 • UGC 9631 • PGC 53499 • CGCG 020-038 • MCG + 00-38-012 • IRAS 14557-0053 • 2MASX J14582270-0105278 • GC 4013 • H II 683 • HIPASS J1458-01 | |
NGC 5792 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Libra on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 86 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1787 by William Herschel .
Ultraviolet image of NGC 5792 using GALEX
High-resolution image of the center of NGC 5792, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope
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