NGC 5980
| Galaxy NGC 5980 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 41 m 30.4 s |
| declination | + 15 ° 47 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 13 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013649 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (4092 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(186 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (57.1 ± 4.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 19, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5980 • UGC 9974 • PGC 55800 • CGCG 107-025 • MCG + 03-40-26 • IRAS 15391 + 1556 • 2MASX J15413039 + 1547156 • GC 4126 • H II 655 • h 1933 • | |
NGC 5980 is a 12.7 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation snake , an estimated 186 million light years vn of the Milky Way 's center.
The object was discovered on March 19, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "F, E in the meridian, 1.5 ′ long".