Key facts
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Right ascension
- 14 32 40.7
- Declination
- −44 ° 10 ′ 28 ″
- Redshift
- 1199 ± 2 km / s
- Distance
- 41 Mly (12.5 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(rs)c
- Size
- 21.09 kpc (68,800 ly ) ( diameter; D 25 isophote )
- Apparent size v
- 4.6 ′ × 4.0 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5643 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Lupus. Based on the tip of the red-giant branch distance indicator, it is located at a distance of about 40 million light-years (12.5 megaparsecs). NGC 5643 has an active galactic nucleus and is a type II Seyfert galaxy.
Observation history
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