NGC 5944
| Galaxy NGC 5944 |
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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 31 m 47.6 s |
| declination | + 07 ° 18 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 111 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.033650 ± 0.000093 |
| Radial velocity | (10088 ± 28) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(453 ± 32) · 10 6 Lj (138.8 ± 9.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | April 19, 1887 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5944 • PGC 55321 • CGCG 050-013 • MCG + 01-40-004 • HCG 76A • | |
NGC 5944 is a 15.0 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Snake . It is one of the three controversial members of the Hickson Compact Group 76 in the numbering of modern astronomy and was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on April 19, 1887 .