NGC 5958
| Galaxy NGC 5958 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Northern crown |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 34 m 49.1 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 39 ′ 19 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SABc / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 1.0 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006695 ± 0.000008 |
| Radial velocity | (2007 ± 2) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(94 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (28.9 ± 2.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5958 • UGC 9909 • PGC 55494 • CGCG 166-009 • MCG + 05-37-03 • IRAS 15327 + 2849 • 2MASX J15344912 + 2839184 • GC 4113 • H II 399 • LDCE 1135 NED001 | |
NGC 5958 is a 12.7 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble-type SABc in the constellation Corona Borealis. It is estimated to be 94 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 30,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered on April 11, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “pF, pL, iR, bM, r”.