NGC 5888
| Galaxy NGC 5888 |
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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 13 m 07.4 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 15 ′ 53 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 158 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.029123 ± 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | (8731 ± 20) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(396 ± 28) · 10 6 ly (121.3 ± 8.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5888 • UGC 9771 • PGC 54316 • CGCG 221-037 • MCG + 07-31-38 • IRAS F15112 + 4127 • GC 4069 • H III 659 • h 1912 • | |
NGC 5888 is a 13.4 mag light barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Bear Guardian . It is estimated to be 396 million light years from the Milky Way .
It was discovered on April 9, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS, resolvable".