NGC 5936
| Galaxy NGC 5936 |
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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 30 m 00.8 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 59 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b / LIRG / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 36 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013356 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | (4004 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(182 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (55.7 ± 3.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 12, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5936 • UGC 9867 • PGC 55255 • CGCG 078-001, 077-137 • MCG + 02-39-30 • IRAS 15276 + 1309 • 2MASX J15300084 + 1259215 • GC 4105 • H II 130 • NVSS J152959 + 125912 | |
NGC 5936 is an active bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation areas of the Hubble type "SBb" in the constellation Snake in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 182 million light years from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter.
The Type-Iax- Supernova SN 2013dh was observed here.
The object was discovered on April 12, 1784 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “F, not S, iF, r”.