Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 14 39 49.7
- Declination
- −0 ° 43 ′ 6 ″
- Redshift
- 1758 ± 4 km/ s
- Type
- SB(rs)d
- Apparent size v
- 2'.9 × 1'.7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 27
- Image
- Ngc5705.jpg
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- GPM 219.957173-00.718544
- galaxy morphological type
- SBcd
- Commons category
- NGC 5705
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-05-17
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- redshift
- 0.005861
- apparent magnitude
- 13.521
- right ascension
- 219.9570458
- declination
- -0.7183833
- radial velocity
- 1764
- declination component of proper motion
- -1
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 15
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5705 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered on 17 May 1884 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan.
NGC 5705 is part of a small group of spiral galaxies that also includes NGC 5691, NGC 5713, and NGC 5719. It is a member of the NGC 5746 Group of galaxies, itself one of the Virgo III Groups strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5705” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.