NGC 5916
| Galaxy NGC 5916 |
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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 37.9 s |
| declination | -13 ° 10 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) a / pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.8 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 15 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007525 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (2256 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(100 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.6 ± 2.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 5, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5916 • PGC 54825 • MCG -02-39-20 • IRAS 15188-1259 • GC 4094 • h 3601 • LDCE 1114 NED004 | |
NGC 5916 is a 13.2 mag bright barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa / pec in the constellation Libra and about 100 million light years from the Milky Way.
It interacts with NGC 5915 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".