Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 14 46 11.104
- Declination
- −00 ° 13 ′ 22.99 ″
- Redshift
- 0.005554 ± 0.000093
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1660 km/s
- Type
- SB(r)0/a
- Apparent size v
- 2.420 x 1.646 75 arcminutes ( infrared )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 27.92
- Image
- NGC5750 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3651461283868094720
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-04-11
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.005627
- galaxy morphological type
- SAB0/a
- apparent magnitude
- 11.188
- right ascension
- 221.54636158347010
- declination
- -0.22292455175630
- radial velocity
- 1656
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5750
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5750 is a barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered on April 11, 1787 by the astronomer William Herschel. 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.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5750” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.