NGC 5875
| Galaxy NGC 5875 |
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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 09 m 13.1 s |
| declination | + 52 ° 31 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAb |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.3 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 145 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.011765 ± 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | (3527 ± 20) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(164 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (50.3 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 1, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5875 • UGC 9745 • PGC 54095 • CGCG 274-027 • MCG + 09-25-27 • IRAS 15077 + 5243 • GC 4062 • H II 755 • | |
NGC 5875 is a 12.5 mag bright spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bear Keeper and about 164 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on May 1, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, pL, lE".