Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Distance
- 79,550 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.0045300540801134215
- Coordinates
- RA 204.5126° · Dec -17.8841°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 13 38 03.040
- Declination
- –17 ° 53 ′ 02.50 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- +1,357 km/s
- Distance
- 60.34 Mly , (18.50 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)bc
- Apparent size v
- 5′.6 × 4′.9
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.2
- Image
- HAWK-I NGC 5247.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- redshift
- 0.004526
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6293626066587140352
- Commons category
- NGC 5247
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-02-17
- apparent magnitude
- 7.525
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension
- 204.51257474750280
- declination
- -17.88406538020790
- radial velocity
- 1354
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5247 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy located some 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the Virgo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster. This is a grand design spiral galaxy that displays no indications of distortion caused by interaction with other galaxies. It has two spiral arms that bifurcate after wrapping halfway around the nucleus. The disk is estimated to be 4.9 ± 2.0 kly (1.5 ± 0.6 kpc) in thickness and it is inclined by roughly 28° to the line of sight.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1118063” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.