UGC 5760

GALAXYSpiral galaxy Sbc

ILLUSTRATION FROM HUBBLE TYPE Sbc · MAJOR AXIS 1.95′ · AXIS RATIO 0.29 · POSITION ANGLE 2°

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OVERVIEW

] GALAXY

UGC 5760 is a spiral galaxy Sbc in the constellation Leo, 154.5 from Earth, shining at apparent magnitude 13.67 (). Other catalogues list it as 2MASX 10362132+1342410, PGC 31435 and WISExSCOS J103621.36+134242.6.

WHAT IT IS
Spiral galaxy
HOW FAR
154.5

The light arriving now left it that long ago.

HOW BIG ON THE SKY
2.0

Small enough that the full Moon would cover it several times over.

HOW BRIGHT (B)

Faint: it takes a large telescope.

WHERE TO LOOK
Leo

The patch of sky it sits in, as seen from Earth.

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THE MODEL

] LIGHT ALONG THE RAY
OUTSIDE THE SURVEYED VOLUME · DRAG TO ORBIT

CALCULATED · NOT AN OBSERVATION · ANGULAR SIZE AT THE CATALOGUED DISTANCE · HUBBLE TYPE Sbc · MAJOR AXIS 1.95′ · AXIS RATIO 0.29 · POSITION ANGLE 2° · NO SURFACE — DRAWN AS A VOLUME · AXIS RATIO READ AS AN INCLINATION

An exponential disc with a bulge at the middle and arms wound at the pitch angle its Hubble type implies, with the dust drawn where the dust is: on the inner edge of each arm, ahead of the crest, because inside co-rotation the gas overtakes the spiral pattern and piles up as it goes in. The shape of it is the catalogued morphology; the tilt is the catalogued axis ratio read as an inclination, which is what a round disc's axis ratio is. Nothing measured the depth — a disc that looks this elliptical from the Sun is this far over, and the model is that disc seen from wherever you turn it to. The two colours are two populations: old stars in the bulge and the disc, young ones in the arms, both through the same blackbody table as the star pages. Drag it, or use the arrow keys, to look from another direction. The stars behind are the 498,631 this catalogue holds real distances for, drawn from where the camera actually is — but every one of them is within 170 parsecs of the Sun and this object is much further out, so from here that whole neighbourhood is a knot in one direction and the rest of the sky is empty. The view you land on looks the other way; turn back towards the Sun and the stars come with it. What the readout says is which of the two the frame is pointed at. The emptiness is not a missing backdrop — it is the edge of what this catalogue has measured.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see UGC 5760 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

TONIGHT

Say where you are, and this line says when UGC 5760 is worth going out for.

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THROUGH AN EYEPIECE

] 150 MM TELESCOPE · 25 MM EYEPIECE
NE
FIELD 1.08°

Near the faint end of this catalogue: a 300 mm telescope reaches it and a 150 mm one does not. UGC 5760 covers 2.0′ of sky against a of 1.08°, so at 48× it is a small patch, centred.

48×
1.08
1.25
13.0
SIZE ON THE SKY
2.0
FILLS OF THE FIELD
3% of the width
APPARENT MAGNITUDE ()
13.67 · too faint for this

UGC 5760 is not a point of light, so the limit above is the wrong one to hold it against: the same brightness spread over 2.0′ of sky is harder than a star of it, and goes first. Catalogued sizes are measured to a photographic contour, and the part an eye sees is usually smaller.

FIND IT ON THE SKY MAP ↗
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APPARENT PLACE

] EQUINOX J2026.7

Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.

RIGHT ASCENSION
DECLINATION
GRID TURNED SINCE
22.4
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-09-02 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for UGC 5760, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.

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CATALOG DATA

] 12 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Hubble type
Stellar mass
4.67×10⁹ ±1.9×10⁹

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Apparent magnitude ()
Apparent magnitude ()
Apparent magnitude ( band)
Apparent magnitude ()

WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES

Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.

Redshift (z)
Redshift (z, CMB frame)
Major axis
1.95389
Minor axis
0.570146
2

WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM

Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.

Morphology from
SIMBAD (2015ApJS..217...27A, quality C)
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • 2MASX 2MASX 10362132+1342410
  • PGC PGC 31435
  • WISExSCOS WISExSCOS J103621.36+134242.6
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 4 SERVICES

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. UGC 5760 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/ugc-5760
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_ugc-5760,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{UGC 5760}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/ugc-5760},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era).}
}

The values above were taken from GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era) — VizieR terms; cite Dalya+ 2022 (2022MNRAS.514.1403D). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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