NGC 5920
| Galaxy NGC 5920 |
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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 21 m 51.8 s |
| declination | + 07 ° 42 ′ 32 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | cD; S0: / NLRG |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 2063 |
| Redshift | 0.044196 ± 0.000015 |
| Radial velocity | (13,250 ± 4) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(609 ± 43) · 10 6 ly (186.6 ± 13.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | March 30, 1887 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5920 • UGC 9822 • PGC 54839 • CGCG 049-145 • 2MASX J15215187 + 0742319 • | |
NGC 5920 is a 13.7 mag bright, lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble-type S0 in the constellation Snake in the northern sky . It is an estimated 609 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 200,000 ly. It is the brightest of a small cluster of faint galaxies. a. her neighbor NGC 5919 also belongs.
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on March 30, 1887 .
Web links
- NGC 5920. SIMBAD, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- NGC 5920. DSO Browser, accessed May 11, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5920. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 11, 2016 .