NGC 5915
| Galaxy NGC 5915 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Libra |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 21 m 33.1 s |
| declination | -13 ° 05 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) from pec / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 164 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007580 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | (2272 ± 3) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(100 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.8 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 5, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5915 • UGCA 407 • PGC 54816 • MCG -02-39-19 • IRAS 15187-1254 • GC 4093 • h 3600 • LDCE 1114 NED003 | |
NGC 5915 is a 12.3 mag barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Libra and 100 million light years from the Milky Way.
It interacts with NGC 5916 and was discovered together with it on June 5, 1836 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflecting telescope, who noted "B, S, R, glbM, 15 arcseconds, the preceding of two".