NGC 5894
| Galaxy NGC 5894 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 11 m 41 s |
| declination | + 59 ° 48 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBdm? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.0 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 13 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008226 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | (2466 ± 4) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(117 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.9 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 25, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5894 • UGC 9768 • PGC 54234 • CGCG 297-006 • MCG + 10-22-004 • IRAS 15105 + 5959 • 2MASX J15114093 + 5948317 • GC 4074 • H II 763 • NVSS J151141 + 594841 | |
NGC 5894 is a 12.7 mag bright bar spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBm in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 117 million light years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered on May 25, 1788 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, mE, nearly in meridian, 2 'long, 0.5' broad".