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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.008767808136571853
Morphology
SA0
Coordinates
RA 208.5489° · Dec -7.5882°
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Key facts

Constellation
Virgo
Right ascension
13 54 11.700
Declination
−07 ° 35 ′ 17.20 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
2640 km/s
Type
SA0 (r)?
Size
56,500 ly (17,320 pc )
Apparent size v
1.5 ′ × 1.2 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Virgo
Image
NGC5343 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 49412
time of discovery or invention
1785-03-05
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
redshift
0.008729
galaxy morphological type
SA0
apparent magnitude
11.482
right ascension
208.5487500
declination
-7.5881111
radial velocity
2617
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 5343
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 5343 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered on 5 May 1785 by William Herschel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5343” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.