NGC 5907

NGC 5907 is an edge position to be seen in spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco with an apparent magnitude of 10.4 mag. You can 2.9 ° SSW of 3.3 likes bright star ι Draconis and about 1 ° north of both 11.7 and 11.8 likes bright spiral galaxies NGC 5905 and NGC 5908 found in the vicinity of the constellation Bootes. NGC 5907 has an area of ​​12.8 ' × 1.4 ', where it has almost no visible bulge. The galaxy is therefore very slim and probably from the Hubble type Sc. NGC 5907 is probably a member of about 40 million light -years away from Earth galaxy group around NGC 5866th According to this distance and its angular extent it has a diameter of about 150,000 light years.

The galaxy was discovered on 5 May 1788 by the German - British astronomer William Herschel. Your occasionally used English name Splinter Galaxy was coined in 1970 by the amateur astronomer Walter Scott Huston. The faint glow of the galaxy on the west side of dark dust band their disk was discovered by Lord Rosse and is listed as NGC 5906.