NGC 5964

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Galaxy
NGC 5964
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Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
AladinLite
Constellation Snake
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 15 h 37 m 36.2 s
declination + 05 ° 58 ′ 26 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (rs) d / AGN?  
Brightness  (visual) 12.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 12.9 mag
Angular expansion 4.1 ′ × 3.3 ′
Position angle 145 °
Surface brightness 14.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.004827 ± 0.000004  
Radial velocity (1447 ± 1) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(67 ± 5)  ·  10 6  ly
(20.5 ± 1.4)  Mpc 
diameter 80,000 ly
history
discovery John Herschel
Discovery date April 24, 1830
Catalog names
NGC  5964 • IC  4551 • UGC  9935 • PGC  55637 • CGCG  050-047 • MCG  + 01-40-008 • IRAS  15351 + 0608 • 2MASX  J15373722 + 0558068 •

NGC 5964 = IC 4551 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBcd in the constellation Snake north of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 67 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly. a. the galaxies NGC 5955 and NGC 5960 .

The object was discovered on April 24, 1830 by John Herschel (listed as NGC ) and on August 19, 1897 by Lewis Swift ( listed as IC ).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 5964
  3. Seligman
  4. SIMBAD Database