NGC 5068
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 13 18 54.7658
- Declination
- −21 ° 02 ′ 19.705 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 670 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 22 Mly (6.8 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)d
- Size
- ~68,200 ly (20.91 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 7.2′ × 6.3′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 6.9
- Image
- NGC 5068 GALEX.jpg
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- catalog code
- [VDD93] 182
- galaxy morphological type
- Sd
- Commons category
- NGC 5068
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 7.549
- redshift
- 0.002245
- right ascension
- 199.7283625
- declination
- -21.0391000
- radial velocity
- 673
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5068 is a face-on field barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. NGC 5068 is located approximately 22 million light-years away and has a diameter that exceeds 45000 light-years. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 10 March 1785.
Although no supernovae have been observed in NGC 5068 yet, a luminous red nova, designated AT 2020hat (type LRN, mag. 17.8), was discovered by ATLAS on 12 April 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5068” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.