Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.011972
- Coordinates
- RA 201.0072° · Dec -32.3439°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 24 01.7
- Declination
- −32 ° 20 ′ 38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3581 km/s
- Distance
- 172 Mly
- Type
- SAB0-
- Size
- ~130,400 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.7 x 1.0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 45.53
- Image
- 2MASS NGC 5114.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- catalog code
- FLASH J132401.75-322035.8
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-06-03
- apparent magnitude
- 9.291
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- redshift
- 0.011902
- right ascension
- 201.0072500
- declination
- -32.3439778
- radial velocity
- 3381
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5114
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5114 is a lenticular galaxy located about 170 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on June 3, 1836.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5114” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.