NGC 5851
| Galaxy NGC 5851 |
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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 | 15 h 06 m 53.4 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 51 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 43 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021582 ± 0.000137 |
| Radial velocity | (6470 ± 41) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(291 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (89.3 ± 6.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 26, 1791 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5851 • UGC 9714 • PGC 53965 • CGCG 077-008 • MCG + 02-38-44 • GC 4048 • H III 886 • LDCE 1104 NED001 | |
NGC 5851 is a 14.3 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core (LINER type) of the Hubble type Sc in the constellation Bear Guardian and about 291 million light years from the Milky Way.
Together with NGC 5852, it forms a gravitationally bound and interacting pair of galaxies and was discovered together with this pair on May 26, 1791 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, which "Two nebulae, both eF, vS, the preceding is the most northerly; distance 1.5 ′ “.