Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy1
- Redshift
- z = 0.006260581278466848
- Coordinates
- RA 200.4427° · Dec -27.4305°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 13 21 46.2
- Declination
- −27 ° 25 ′ 50 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1868 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 89 M ly , (27.4 M pc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 5061 group (LGG 341)
- Type
- (R)SB0/a(rs)
- Size
- ~150,000 ly (45.91 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 5.4 ′ × 4.6 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance from Earth
- 16.01
- Image
- NGC 5101 GALEX.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1632
- catalog code
- FLASH J132146.62-272553.4
- Commons category
- NGC 5101
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-03-28
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 7.156
- galaxy morphological type
- SBr...
- redshift
- 0.006208
- right ascension
- 200.4426750
- declination
- -27.4305194
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5101 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra. It was discoverd by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 28 March 1786.
NGC 5101 is separated in the sky from the spiral galaxy NGC 5078 by about 0.5 degrees, and both are believed to be at the same distance from the Earth. This would mean they are approximately 800,000 light-years apart. Both galaxies are believed to be about the size of the Milky Way.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5101” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.