NGC 5533 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Boötes (Boo) · Contains: NGC 5533 · PGC 214239

NGC 5533

This seldom imaged Seyfert spiral galaxy is located 145 million light years away in the constellation of Bootes at a declination of +35 degrees. It is a magnitude 11.8 galaxy which spans 3.8 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a large diameter of 160,000 light years

From our view perspective, the disk is inclined about 35 degrees from edge-on.

The galaxy disk is subtly but oddly asymmetric. The core is a bit offset to the upper left, the 2 rings don't quite line up in the mid-region, and the outer disk is brighter in the lower right half. Not much color is seen, but several star clouds are seen in the outer disk.

The small well structured spiral with a warped disk to the upper left of NGC 5533 looks to be a distant spiral and not a nearby dwarf galaxy. No distance data is available for this galaxy, but if it is about 100,000 light years in diameter, it is about 2 billion light years away.

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RA (center)	14h16m07s.746
RA (top/left)	14h16m53s.603
RA (top/right)	14h15m20s.361
RA (bottom/right)	14h15m22s.420
RA (bottom/left)	14h16m54s.980

Dec (center)	+35°20′34″.25
Dec (top/left)	+35°28′05″.13
Dec (top/right)	+35°27′41″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°13′00″.91
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°13′24″.94

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