Key facts
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Right ascension
- 15 12 45.453
- Declination
- +41 ° 14 ′ 00.87 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8230 km/s
- Distance
- 406.6 ± 28.5 Mly (124.66 ± 8.73 Mpc )
- Type
- E0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Image
- NGC5886 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1392099853841219328
- galaxy morphological type
- E-S0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-05-13
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.02783
- apparent magnitude
- 12.747
- right ascension
- 228.18936495190850
- declination
- 41.23358845119210
- radial velocity
- 8227
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5886
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5886 is an +14 magnitude elliptical galaxy in the constellation Boötes. It was originally discovered by John Herschel on 13 May 1828 with an 18.7 inches (470 mm) reflector.
NGC 5886, together with NGC 5888, form a gravitationally bound pair of galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5886” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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