NGC 5001

NGC 5001 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is designated as SB in the galaxy morphological classification scheme. It was discovered by John Herschel on 1 May 1831. It is at a distance of 130 million parsecs from the Earth.^[1][3]

NGC 5001
SDSS image of NGC 5001
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right ascension	13h 09m 33.1s[1]
Declination	+53° 29′ 39″[1]
Redshift	0.030311±0.000113[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	9087±34 km/s[1]
Galactocentric velocity	9184±34 km/s[1]
Apparent magnitude (V)	12.829
Absolute magnitude (V)	-22.74
Characteristics
Type	SBb[2]
Apparent size (V)	1.3′ × 0.4′[1]
Other designations
UGC 8243, MCG 9-22-22, ZWG 271.20, PGC 45631 and IRAS 13074+5345
References: NASA/IPAC extragalactic datatbase, http://spider.seds.org/

See also

• List of NGC objects (5001–6000)
• List of NGC objects
• List of spiral galaxies