NGC 5947
| Galaxy NGC 5947 |
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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 30 m 36.6 s |
| declination | + 42 ° 43 ′ 02 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019650 ± 0.000157 |
| Radial velocity | (5891 ± 47) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(269 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (82.5 ± 5.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 18, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5947 • UGC 9877 • PGC 55274 • CGCG 222-019 • MCG + 07-32-019 • IRAS 15288 + 4253 • 2MASX J15303656 + 4243018 • GALEX ASC J153036.58 + 424302.2 • LDCE 1129 NED005 | |
NGC 5947 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 269 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 95,000 ly. a. the galaxies NGC 5934 , NGC 5935 , NGC 5943 , NGC 5945 .
The object was discovered on June 18, 1884 by Édouard Stephan .