NGC 5896
| Galaxy NGC 5896 |
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| NGC 5896 & NGC 5895 (below) SDSS image | |
| 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 50.7 s |
| declination | + 42 ° 01 ′ 27 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.3 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 76 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.065613 ± 0.000113 |
| Radial velocity | (19,670 ± 34) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(885 ± 62) x 10 6 ly (271.2 ± 19.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | RJ Mitchell |
| Discovery date | May 23, 1854 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5896 • UGC 9774 NOTES02 • PGC 54367 • CGCG 221-042 NED02 • MCG + 07-31-044 • 2MASX J15135069 + 4201272 • GC 4073 • 2MASS J15135068 + 4201272 • HOLM 701C | |
NGC 5896 is a 15.0 mag bright lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble type "S0" in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 855 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 75,000 ly. Together with NGC 5893 and NGC 5895 , it forms the optical galaxy trio HOLM 701 .
The object was discovered on May 23, 1854 by RJ Mitchell , an assistant to William Parsons .
Web links
- NGC 5896. SIMBAD, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- NGC 5896. DSO Browser, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5896. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 11, 2016 .