NGC 5852
| Galaxy NGC 5852 |
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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 56.4 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 50 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 125 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022152 ± 0.000140 |
| Radial velocity | (6641 ± 42) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(299 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (91.6 ± 6.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 26, 1791 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5852 • PGC 53974 • CGCG 077-010 • MCG + 02-38-45 • GC 4049 • H III 887 • | |
NGC 5852 is a 13.7 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S? in the constellation Bear Keeper and about 299 million light years from the Milky Way.
Together with NGC 5851, it forms a gravitationally bound and interacting pair of galaxies and was discovered together with them on May 26th, 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 ′ “.