NGC 5950
| Galaxy NGC 5950 |
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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 31 m 30.8 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 25 ′ 48 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 37 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008663 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | (2597 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(122 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (37.4 ± 2.6) Mpc |
| diameter | 45,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 21, 1882 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5950 • UGC 9884 • PGC 55305 • CGCG 222-020 • MCG + 07-32-021 • IRAS 15296 + 4036 • 2MASX J15313082 + 4025485 • | |
NGC 5950 is a bar - spiral galaxy from the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is about 122 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years in diameter .
The object was discovered on June 21, 1882 by Édouard Stephan .