Key facts
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Right ascension
- 15 26 07.987
- Declination
- +41 ° 40 ′ 33.92 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,672 km s
- Distance
- 133 Mly (40.8 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(rs)b pec
- Apparent size v
- 1.830′ × 0.915′
- Notable features
- NGC 5929 is a companion with NGC 5930
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Distance from Earth
- 40.8
- Image
- NGC5930 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 55080
- redshift
- 0.00878
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-03-18
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- SABab(x)
- apparent magnitude
- 8.939
- right ascension
- 231.53331847271540
- declination
- 41.67602543240000
- radial velocity
- 2621
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5930
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5930 is a starburst galaxy in the constellation Boötes that is interacting with the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 5929. 5930 has a morphological classification of SAB(rs)b pec, indicating that it is a weakly-barred spiral galaxy with a poorly defined nuclear ring structure. It is inclined at an angle of 46° to the line of sight from the Earth.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5930” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.