NGC 5913
| Galaxy NGC 5913 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 20 m 55.4 s |
| declination | -02 ° 34 ′ 41 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) a |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 168 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006685 ± 0.000037 |
| Radial velocity | (2004 ± 11) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(90 ± 6) x 10 6 ly (27.6 ± 1.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 14, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5913 • UGC 9818 • PGC 54761 • CGCG 021-079 • MCG + 00-39-21 • IRAS 15183-0223 • GC 4092 • H III 374 • h 1918, 3599 • | |
NGC 5913 is a 13.5 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBa in the constellation line and 90 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on April 14, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "eF, pL, resolvable". John Herschel noted "vF, lE, gbM, 25 arcseconds long, 20 arcseconds broad" when he observed with an 18-inch reflector telescope in 1847.