NGC 5914
| Galaxy NGC 5914 |
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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 18 m 43.8 s |
| declination | + 41 ° 51 ′ 56 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 153 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018039 ± 0.000163 |
| Radial velocity | (5408 ± 49) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(247 ± 17) x 10 6 ly (75.8 ± 5.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | May 16, 1882 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5914 • PGC 54654 • CGCG 221-051, 222-001 • MCG + 07-31-55 • LDCE 1113 NED003 | |
NGC 5914 , also known as NGC 5914A , is a 14.4 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bear Guardian and about 247 million light years from the Milky Way.
Together with the galaxy PGC 54653 (also NGC 5914B or NGC 5914B-1 ) and the four times as distant PGC 2188560 (also NGC 5914B2 or NGC 5914B-2 ), it forms an optical triple galaxy.
The object was discovered on May 16, 1882 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 5914. SIMBAD, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- NGC 5914. DSO Browser, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5914. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 11, 2016 .