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Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NGC 5001 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is designated as SB in the galaxy morphological classification scheme. It was discovered by John Herschel on 1 May 1831. It is at a distance of 130 million parsecs from the Earth.[1][3]
NGC 5001 | |
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Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
Constellation | Ursa Major |
Right ascension | 13h 09m 33.1s[1] |
Declination | +53° 29′ 39″[1] |
Redshift | 0.030311±0.000113[1] |
Heliocentric radial velocity | 9087±34 km/s[1] |
Galactocentric velocity | 9184±34 km/s[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.829 |
Absolute magnitude (V) | -22.74 |
Characteristics | |
Type | SBb[2] |
Apparent size (V) | 1.3′ × 0.4′[1] |
Other designations | |
UGC 8243, MCG 9-22-22, ZWG 271.20, PGC 45631 and IRAS 13074+5345 | |
References: NASA/IPAC extragalactic datatbase, http://spider.seds.org/ |
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