NGC 5085 — Sc in Hydra
Sc in Hydra, 4.1 arcminutes across, its light 94 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 5085
What you are looking at
NGC 5085 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. It is tilted about 38° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 111,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a member of a group of galaxies. It is cited in 98 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 18 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 94 million years. When it left, dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,957 km/s (4.4 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 5085 sits within the constellation Hydra. It is best placed on spring evenings: around 9:30 pm in May it stands about 26° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: IC 4231 (2.0° away on the sky, at least 3,220,000 light-years from it); NGC 5084 (2.6° away on the sky, at least 4,270,000 light-years from it); NGC 5078 (3.0° away on the sky, at least 4,850,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 232 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 46531 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 4.06′ |
| Right ascension | 13h20m17.8s |
| Declination | -24°26′25.2″ |
| Constellation | Hydra |
| Inclination | 37.6° |
| Light travel time | 94 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 4.1 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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