NGC 5529 — SABc in Boötes
SABc in Boötes, 5.8 arcminutes across, its light 138 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 5529
What you are looking at
NGC 5529 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. A weak bar of stars crosses its centre. We see it almost exactly edge-on, so its whole disc appears as one thin band of light, with dust showing as a dark line along its length. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 231,000 light-years, about 2.4 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as one of a pair of galaxies. It is cited in 167 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 19 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
What a telescope records of NGC 5529 is light that left it about 138 million years ago; on Earth, the first birds had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,876 km/s (6.4 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 5529 lies in Boötes. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in June it stands about 86° 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: NGC 5544 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 1,090,000 light-years from it); UGC 9113 (0.8° away on the sky, at least 2,020,000 light-years from it); NGC 5590 (1.6° away on the sky, at least 3,830,000 light-years from it); NGC 5596 (1.6° away on the sky, at least 3,940,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 87 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 50942 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | SABc |
| Angular diameter | 5.79′ |
| Right ascension | 14h15m34.1s |
| Declination | +36°13′36.0″ |
| Constellation | Boötes |
| Inclination | 90.0° |
| Light travel time | 138 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 5.8 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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