Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 5873
NGC5873, NGC 5873
- Object type
- nebula
- Constellation
- Lup
- Right ascension
- 228.21166667°
- Declination
- -38.12555556°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 2139.291471319174 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 11.0
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog