NGC 5859
| Galaxy NGC 5859 |
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| Image of NGC 5859 (above) and NGC 5857 (below) with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 07 m 34.7 s |
| declination | + 19 ° 34 ′ 56 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3 '× 0.8' |
| Position angle | 136 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 394 |
| Redshift | 0.015891 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (4764 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(216 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (66.2 ± 4.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 27, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5859 • UGC 9728 • PGC 54001 • CGCG 106-007 • MCG + 03-39-05 • IRAS 15052 + 1946 • 2MASX J15073474 + 1934562 • GC 4052 • H II 752 • h 1905 • KCPG 455B | |
NGC 5859 is a bar-spiral galaxy located in the constellation Bear Keeper and listed in the New General Catalog . It is estimated to be 216 million light years from the Milky Way . The galaxy was discovered on April 27, 1788 by the astronomer William Herschel with his 48 cm telescope.