NGC 5963
| Galaxy NGC 5963 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 33 m 27.8 s |
| declination | + 56 ° 33 ′ 35 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 3.3 ′ × 2.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 55 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.002185 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | (655 ± 10) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(36 ± 3) · 10 6 ly (11.13 ± 0.80) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 5, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5963 • UGC 9906 • PGC 55419 • CGCG 297-015 • MCG + 09-25-058 • IRAS 15322 + 5643 • 2MASX J15332779 + 5633345 • GC 4114 • H II 761 • LDCE 1112 NED004 | |
NGC 5963 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Draco the northern sky . It is an estimated 36 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 30,000 ly. In the same area of the sky lie the galaxies NGC 5965 , NGC 5969 , NGC 5971 , PGC 2544663 .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on May 5, 1788 .
Web links
Commons : NGC 5963 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [1]