NGC 5363 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: NGC 5363 · PGC 1280583

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NGC 5363

This object is a lenticular galaxy located 60 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of +5 degrees. This 10.1 magnitude galaxy has a surface brightness of 12.9. It spans 4-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 70,000 light years. The major axis of the galaxy extends from lower left to upper right.

Though simple in appearance and not well studied, this galaxy is complex and was difficult for me to process and to understand visually. Several foreground Milky Way stars are superimposed over the galaxy, including a bluish 12th magnitude star almost exactly over the galaxy core. Mentally subtract these from your vision and focus on the bright core of the galaxy. In the minor axis direction, a tiny dust band encircles the core itself. The lower right half of the core is obscured by a disk of meandering dust lanes, which likely encircles the entire core but is not visible on the backside because it overwhelmed by the brightness of the core. Like other lenticular galaxies with odd brightnesses and dust lanes, I suspect that this galaxy was formed as result of smaller galaxy mergers long ago.

Many tiny orange galaxies are seen in the background, most of which are over 1 billion light years away.

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RA (center)	13h56m06s.888
RA (top/left)	13h56m47s.660
RA (top/right)	13h55m26s.122
RA (bottom/right)	13h55m26s.728
RA (bottom/left)	13h56m47s.641

Dec (center)	+05°15′23″.30
Dec (top/left)	+05°22′00″.64
Dec (top/right)	+05°21′46″.49
Dec (bottom/right)	+05°08′45″.23
Dec (bottom/left)	+05°08′59″.44

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