NGC 5719 — SABa in Virgo
SABa in Virgo, 3.1 arcminutes across, its light 83 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 5719
What you are looking at
NGC 5719 is an early-type spiral: a large, bright central bulge wrapped in smooth, tightly wound arms. A weak bar of stars crosses its centre. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 71° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 74,000 light-years, about 76% of the Milky Way’s width.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a member of a group of galaxies. It is cited in 188 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 37 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 5719 today set out about 83 million years ago, when dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,727 km/s (3.9 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 5719 sits within the constellation Virgo. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in June it stands about 50° 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 5713 (0.2° away on the sky, at least 270,000 light-years from it); NGC 5705 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 700,000 light-years from it); NGC 5691 (0.8° away on the sky, at least 1,110,000 light-years from it); UGC 9470 (1.0° away on the sky, at least 1,480,000 light-years from it), and 8 more.
By apparent size it is number 484 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 52455 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | SABa |
| Angular diameter | 3.08′ |
| Right ascension | 14h40m56.4s |
| Declination | -00°19′05.4″ |
| Constellation | Virgo |
| Inclination | 71.2° |
| Light travel time | 83 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 3.1 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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