Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.004556
- Morphology
- S_AB
- Coordinates
- RA 226.3594° · Dec 2.0993°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 15 5 26.2
- Declination
- +2 ° 5 ′ 58 ″
- Redshift
- 1359 ± 10 km/ s
- Type
- SA0
- Apparent size v
- 4.2 ′ × 1.5 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 21.77
- Image
- Ngc5838.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E-S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 53862
- Commons category
- NGC 5838
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-02-24
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.004546
- apparent magnitude
- 7.581
- right ascension
- 226.3594667
- declination
- 2.0993556
- radial velocity
- 1427
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5838 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo, discovered by William Herschel in 1786. It is a member of the Virgo III Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5838” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.