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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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 “Q1116459” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.