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 largest redshift^[5] of any galaxy in the New General Catalogue. Prior to 2023, another spiral galaxy, NGC 1262, had been thought to have a higher redshift.^[6][5] NGC 5609 is the most distant visually observed galaxy in the NGC Catalog^[5] and 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	14h 23m 48.3s[1]
Declination	34° 50′ 34″[1]
Redshift	0.100588 [1]
Heliocentric 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)