Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 13 47 00.392
- Declination
- +60 ° 58 ′ 22.94 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1998 km/s
- Distance
- 95.48 ± 16.78 Mly (29.275 ± 5.144 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 5322 group (LGG 360)
- Type
- S0
- Size
- 103,200 ly (31,640 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 3.7 ′ × 0.7 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 33.79
- Image
- NGC 5308.png
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- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 48860
- Commons category
- NGC 5308
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1790-00-00
- redshift
- 0.006755
- apparent magnitude
- 8.362
- right ascension
- 206.75181501382780
- declination
- 60.97314804569050
- radial velocity
- 2018
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5308 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered on 19 March 1790 by William Herschel. It was described by John Louis Emil Dreyer as "bright, pretty large" when he compiled the New General Catalogue. A small, irregular galaxy near NGC 5308 has been given the designation LEDA 2802348.
NGC 5308 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016. The galaxy appears to be a flat, smooth disk, typical of most lenticular galaxies. Many large globular clusters orbit the galaxy; these are visible as tiny dots surrounding the galaxy, and are mostly made of old, aging stars similar to the galaxy itself.
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