NGC 5934
| Galaxy NGC 5934 |
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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 28 m 12.8 s |
| declination | + 42 ° 55 ′ 48 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 2 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019016 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | (5701 ± 23) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(261 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (79.9 ± 5.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 12, 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5934 • UGC 9862 • PGC 55178 • CGCG 222-011 • MCG + 07-32-11 • IRAS 15264 + 4306 • 2MASX J15281276 + 4255474 • LDCE 1129 NED001 | |
NGC 5934 is a 13.8 mag bright spiral radio galaxy of the Hubble type S? in the constellation Bear Keeper and about 261 million light years from the Milky Way.
Together with NGC 5935, it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy and was discovered together with it on June 12, 1880 by Édouard Stephan .
Web links
- NGC 5934. SIMBAD, accessed May 16, 2016 .
- NGC 5934. DSO Browser, accessed May 16, 2016 .
- Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5934. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 16, 2016 .