NGC 5967A - Spiral Galaxy in Apus

NGC 5967A is a Spiral Galaxy in the Apus constellation. NGC 5967A is situated close to the southern celestial pole and, as such, it is easilty visible for most part of the year from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for NGC 5967A - Spiral Galaxy in Apus

• Photometric information of NGC 5967A
• Apparent size of NGC 5967A
• Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 5967A
• NGC 5967A morphological classification.
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of NGC 5967A.
• Rise ans set times of NGC 5967A from your location.

Photometric information of NGC 5967A

The following table lists the magnitude of NGC 5967A in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).

For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.

The surface brightess reported below is an indication of the brightness per unit of angular area of NGC 5967A.

Apparent size of NGC 5967A

The following table reports NGC 5967A apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of NGC 5967A is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 5967A

The image below is a photograph of NGC 5967A from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).

NGC 5967A - Spiral Galaxy in Apus morphological classification

NGC 5967A - Spiral Galaxy in Apus is classified as Spiral (SAc) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of NGC 5967A - Spiral Galaxy in Apus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of NGC 5967A

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of NGC 5967A are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of NGC 5967A in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

Rise ans set times of NGC 5967A from your location

NGC 5967A - Spiral Galaxy in Apus is currently not visible from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt