NGC 5967
| Galaxy NGC 5967 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bird of paradise |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 48 m 15.9 s |
| declination | -75 ° 40 ′ 23 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.7 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 90 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009623 ± 0.000019 |
| Radial velocity | (2885 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(122 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (37.4 ± 2.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 7, 1836 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5967 • PGC 56078 • ESO 42-10 • IRAS 15421-7531 • 2MASX J15481597-7540226 • SGC 154206-7531.1 • GC 4120 • h 3608 • LEDA 56078 | |
NGC 5967 is a 12.0 mag bright bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type "SBc" in the constellation Apus in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 122 million light years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 light years in diameter.
The Type Ic supernova SN 2009gd was observed here.
The object was discovered on June 7, 1836 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope, who noted "faint, pretty large, round, very gradually brighter in the middle, 2 'across".