Key facts
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Right ascension
- 15 02 42.0
- Declination
- +23 ° 20 ′ 00.0 ″
- Type
- SA(s)c
- Apparent size v
- 81.20 ″ by 63.64 ″
- Notable features
- Interacting with the galaxy IC 4526
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Distance from Earth
- 45.50
- Image
- NGC5829 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 53709
- time of discovery or invention
- 1882-05-11
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.01897
- galaxy morphological type
- Scd
- apparent magnitude
- 12.789
- radial velocity
- 5683
- right ascension
- 225.6750220
- declination
- 23.3336190
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5829
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5829 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Boötes. It is 281 million light-years away from Earth and was discovered by astronomer, Edouard Stephan in May 1882.
The luminosity class of NGC 5829 is III and it has an HI line with regions of ionized hydrogen. With a surface brightness of only 14.42 magnitude, NGC 5829 can be classified as a low-surface brightness galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5829” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.