NGC 5533

NGC 5533 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes. It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on May 1, 1785.[5] It has a regular structure, with one tightly wound spiral; its disk is inclined about 53 degrees towards the line of sight.[3]

NGC 5533
SDSS image of NGC 5533
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationBoötes
Right ascension14h 16m 07.74475s[1]
Declination+35° 20′ 37.7796″[1]
Redshift0.01282[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity3818 km/s[2]
Distance177 Mly (54.3 Mpc)[3]
Group or clusterNGC 5557 Group
Apparent magnitude (V)11.81[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)12.68[4]
Characteristics
TypeSA(rs)ab[3]
Other designations
UGC 9133, MCG +06-31-089, PGC 50973[2]

It is a member of the NGC 5557 Group, along with several other galaxies.[6]

References
  1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. "NGC 5533". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  3. Marchuk, A. A.; Sotnikova, N. Y. (2018). "Two-component gravitational instability in spiral galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 475 (4): 4891–4910. arXiv:1804.07962. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty100.
  4. "Search specification: NGC 5533". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  5. Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 5500 - 5549". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  6. "NAME NGC 5557 Group". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  • Media related to NGC 5533 at Wikimedia Commons


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