{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Boötes}} {{Infobox galaxy | name = NGC 5886 | image = [[File:NGC5886 - SDSS DR14.jpg|250px]] | alt = NGC 5886 | caption = [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey|SDSS]] image of NGC 5886 | epoch = [[J2000]] | constellation name = [[Boötes]] | ra = {{RA|15|12|45.453}}<ref name=2MASS>{{cite journal |doi=10.1086/498708 |last1=Skrutskie |first1=Michael F. |last2=Cutri |first2=Roc M. |last3=Stiening |first3=Rae |last4=Weinberg |first4=Martin D. |last5=Schneider |first5=Stephen E. |last6=Carpenter |first6=John M. |last7=Beichman |first7=Charles A. |last8=Capps |first8=Richard W. |last9=Chester |first9=Thomas |last10=Elias |first10=Jonathan H. |last11=Huchra |first11=John P. |last12=Liebert |first12=James W. |last13=Lonsdale |first13=Carol J. |last14=Monet |first14=David G. |last15=Price |first15=Stephan |last16=Seitzer |first16=Patrick |last17=Jarrett |first17=Thomas H. |last18=Kirkpatrick |first18=J. Davy |last19=Gizis |first19=John E. |last20=Howard |first20=Elizabeth V. |last21=Evans |first21=Tracey E. |last22=Fowler |first22=John W. |last23=Fullmer |first23=Linda |last24=Hurt |first24=Robert L. |last25=Light |first25=Robert M. |last26=Kopan |first26=Eugene L. |last27=Marsh |first27=Kenneth A. |last28=McCallon |first28=Howard L. |last29=Tam |first29=Robert |last30=Van Dyk |first30=Schuyler D. |last31=Wheelock |first31=Sherry L. |title=The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) |journal=The Astronomical Journal |date=1 February 2006 |volume=131 |issue=2 |pages=1163–1183 |bibcode=2006AJ....131.1163S |s2cid=18913331 |issn=0004-6256 |doi-access=free }}</ref> | dec = {{DEC|+41|14|00.87}}<ref name=2MASS/> | h_radial_v = 8230 km/s<ref name=SIMBAD/> | z = 0.02784<ref name=SIMBAD/> | dist_ly = {{cvt|124.66|±|8.73|Mpc|Mly|lk=on|order=flip}}<ref name=NED>{{cite web|url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%205886&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1|title=Results for object NGC 5886 (NGC 5886)|work=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database|publisher=California Institute of Technology|accessdate=2021-02-19}}</ref> | group_cluster = | type = E0<ref name=NED/> | size = | appmag_v = | appmag_b = 14.87<ref name=LEDA>{{cite web|url=http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%205886|title=Search specification: NGC 5886|work=HyperLeda|publisher=Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1|accessdate=2021-02-19}}</ref> | absmag_v = | size_v = | notes = | names = {{odlist | CGCG= 221-036 | PGC=54298}}<ref name=SIMBAD>{{cite simbad|title=NGC 5886|accessdate=2021-02-19}}</ref> }}
'''NGC 5886'''<ref name=NED/> is an +14 magnitude [[elliptical galaxy]] in the constellation [[Boötes]]. It was originally discovered by [[John Herschel]] on 13 May 1828<ref name=cseligman>{{cite web|url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc58a.htm#5886|title=New General Catalogue objects: NGC 5850 - 5899|author=Seligman, Courtney|website=cseligman.com|accessdate=2021-02-19}}</ref> with an {{convert|18.7|in}} [[Reflecting telescope|reflector]].
NGC 5886, together with [[NGC 5888]], form a gravitationally bound [[galaxy group|pair of galaxies]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tempel |first1=Elmo |last2=Kruuse |first2=Maarja |last3=Kipper |first3=Rain |last4=Tuvikene |first4=Taavi |last5=Sorce |first5=Jenny G. |last6=Stoica |first6=Radu S. |title=Bayesian group finder based on marked point processes. Method and feasibility study using the 2MRS data set |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |date=2018 |volume=618 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201833217 |arxiv=1806.04469 |bibcode=2018A&A...618A..81T}}</ref>
==Supernova== One [[supernova]] has been observed in NGC 5886: '''SN{{nbsp}}2020nln''' ([[type Ia supernova|Type{{nbsp}}Ia]], mag. 18.12) was discovered by the [[Zwicky Transient Facility]] on 25 June 2020.<ref>{{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=SN{{nbsp}}2020nln | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020nln | publisher = [[International Astronomical Union|IAU]] | access-date=5 September 2024}}</ref>
== See also == * [[List of NGC objects (5001–6000)]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{commons category-inline}}
{{Ngc60}} {{Boötes}}
[[Category:Boötes]] [[Category:Elliptical galaxies]] [[Category:NGC objects|5886]] [[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|054298]] [[Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1828|18280513]] [[Category:Discoveries by John Herschel]]
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