NGC 5609

NGC 5609 is a spiral galaxy[3] located 1.3 billion light-years light-years away from Earth,[4] in the constellation Boötes.[2] It has the second largest redshift of any galaxy in the New General Catalogue. Only NGC 1262, another spiral galaxy has a higher redshift.[5] NGC 5609 was discovered by astronomer Bindon Blood Stoney on March 1, 1851.[3]

NGC 5609
SDSS image of NGC 5609.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Boötes
Right ascension	14^h 23^m 48.3^s[1]
Declination	34° 50′ 34″[1]
Redshift	0.100588 km/s[1]
Helio radial velocity	30156 km/s[1]
Distance	1.32682 Gly (407 Mpc)[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	15.7[2]
Apparent magnitude (B)	16.5[2]
Characteristics
Type	Sa? [3]
Size	~175,230 ly (estimated)
Apparent size (V)	0.38 x 0.31[1]
Other designations
PGC 3088538[1]

See also

• List of the most distant astronomical objects
• List of NGC objects (5001–6000)

References

1. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 5609. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
2. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 5609". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
3. "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 5600 - 5649". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
4. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
5. "Which NGC spiral has the highest redshift?". www.galaxyzooforum.org. Retrieved 2017-12-07.

External links

• NGC 5609 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images