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NGC 5906

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Right ascension: 15h 15m 53.69s
Declination: +56° 19′ 43.9″
Galactic l, b: 91.584, 51.09
Redshift z: 0.0022274
Radial velocity: 667 km/s
Angular size: 15.47′ × 1.683′

Also known as

26 identifiers

2MASX J15155368+56194382MFGC 12346FGC 1875IRAS 15146+5629IRAS F15145+5630ISOSS J15159+5617LEDA 54470[M98c] 151434.8+563033NGC 5906NGC 5907PSCz Q15146+5629RFGC 2946SDSS J151553.77+561943.5SDSS J151553.77+561943.6SDSS J151553.83+561943.0TC 555UGC 9801UZC J151554.0+561946Z 1514.6+5630Z 274-38Z 297-10[CHM2007] HDC 903 J151553.68+5619438[CHM2007] LDC 1112 J151553.68+5619438MCG+09-25-040[SLK2004] 1109[VDD93] 205

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
NGC 5907 Group	GroupG	6.009″	—
NGC 5907 ULX	ULX	102.4″	—
NGC 5907 ULX-2	ULX	128.3″	—
SDSS J151532.69+562400.7	QSO	310.5″	—
SN 1940A	Supernova	356.3″	14.4
SDSS J151641.59+561447.3	QSO	497″	19.68
[VV98] J151622.0+561150	QSO	528.7″	20.34

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Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-5906 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.