H-NGC5322
Galaxy in Ursa Major
About
An elliptical galaxy in Ursa Major, about 79 million light-years away and some 140,000 light-years across. It leads its own small group, has a boxy outline with a stellar disc buried in its core, and two radio jets emerge from a LINER nucleus. William Herschel found it in 1790. It is in the Herschel 400.
Imaging tips
- Only about 6′ × 4′, so it is too small to frame: use a long focal length and a fine pixel scale.
- Faint for its size at 22.2 mag/arcsec², and an elliptical needs broadband data, so plan many hours of luminance and colour.
- Best around April and May; it peaks near 80° from 50°N.
Facts
- Size
- 6′ × 4′
- Magnitude
- 10.1
- Coordinates
- RA 13h 49.3m, Dec +60° 11′
- Framing, APS-C
- longer than 4000 mm
- Framing, full frame
- longer than 4000 mm
- Best months
- Apr, May
- Peak altitude
- 80° from 50°N, 65° from 35°N