NGC 5935

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Galaxy
NGC 5935
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Bear keeper
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 15 h 28 m 16.7 s
declination + 42 ° 56 ′ 39 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S?  
Brightness  (visual) 14.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.7 mag
Angular expansion 0.7 ′ × 0.3 ′
Position angle 27 °
Surface brightness 13.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.017922 ± 0.000060  
Radial velocity (5373 ± 18) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(246 ± 17)  ·  10 6  ly
(75.4 ± 5.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery Édouard Stephan
Discovery date June 12, 1880
Catalog names
NGC  5935 • PGC  55183 • CGCG  222-013 • MCG  + 07-32-13 • 2MASX  J15281667 + 4256384 • LDCE 1129 NED002

NGC 5935 is a 14.8  mag bright galaxy of the Hubble-type S? in the constellation Bear Keeper and about 246 million light years from the Milky Way. Together with NGC 5934 it forms a gravitationally bound double galaxy.

It was discovered together with this on June 12, 1880 by Édouard Stephan .

Web links

  • NGC 5935. SIMBAD, accessed May 16, 2016 .
  • NGC 5935. DSO Browser, accessed May 16, 2016 .
  • Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 5935. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on May 16, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 5935
  3. Seligman