NGC 5945
| Galaxy NGC 5945 |
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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 29 m 45.0 s |
| declination | + 42 ° 55 ′ 07 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) from LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.9 ′ × 1.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 99 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018423 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | (5523 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(253 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (77.5 ± 5.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 12, 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5945 • UGC 9871 • PGC 55243 • CGCG 222-017 • MCG + 07-32-017 • IRAS 15280 + 4305 • 2MASX J15294500 + 4255073 • LDCE 1129 NED004 | |
NGC 5945 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is classified as an Active Core Galaxy .
The object was discovered on June 12, 1880 by Édouard Stephan .