Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiP
- Redshift
- z = 0.01115
- Coordinates
- RA 224.7485° · Dec 53.9233°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Right ascension
- 14 58 59.722
- Declination
- +53 ° 55 ′ 23.41 ″
- Redshift
- 0.011 261 ± 0.000 037 km/ s
- Distance
- 169.2 Mly (51.89 Mpc )
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 1.31′ × 0.70′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Distance from Earth
- 51.89
- Image
- NGC5821 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- SDSS J145859.66+535523.7
- time of discovery or invention
- 1789-04-24
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.011261
- apparent magnitude
- 10.642
- right ascension
- 224.7488417
- declination
- 53.9231694
- radial velocity
- 3539
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5821
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5821 is a spiral galaxy with a ring structure in the constellation Boötes. It lies near a similarly massed galaxy, NGC 5820, at the same redshift. Both galaxies were discovered by the astronomer William Herschel.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5821” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.