NGC 5838
| Galaxy NGC 5838 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 02 m 26.2 s |
| declination | + 02 ° 05 ′ 58 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA0- / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 4.2 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 43 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 392 |
| Redshift | 0.004473 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (1341 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(60 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (18.5 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | February 24, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5838 • UGC 9692 • PGC 53862 • CGCG 020-057 • MCG + 00-38-22 • IRAS 15029 + 0217 • GC 4038 • H II 542 • LDCE 1076 NED037 | |
NGC 5838 is a 10.9 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Virgo and about 60 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on February 24, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB".
Web links
- NGC 5838. SIMBAD, accessed May 1, 2016 .
- NGC 5838. DSO Browser, accessed May 1, 2016 .
- Courtney Seligman: New General Catalog Objects: NGC 5800 - 5849. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
- Hartmut Frommert: Revised NGC Data for NGC 5838. SEDS, accessed on May 1, 2016 (English).