Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 13 12 11.8
- Declination
- +44 ° 02 ′ 17 ″
- Redshift
- +407/+476 km/s
- Distance
- 5.4 / 8 Mpc , (17.6 / 26.1 million ly )
- Type
- Scd
- Apparent size v
- 6.1′ × 0.8'
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 9
- Image
- NGC 5023 GALEX WikiSky.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sd
- Commons category
- NGC 5023
- catalog code
- RFGC 2495
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-04-09
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 13.296
- right ascension
- 198.0491625
- declination
- 44.0380222
- redshift
- 0.001348
- radial velocity
- 404
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5023 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is considered a member of the M51 Group although it is actually relatively isolated from other galaxies. It is approximately 15 kiloparsecs (49,000 light-years) across and contains more than 200 stars with an apparent magnitude of greater than 23.5.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5023” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.