The sky around NGC 5595 at true scale, north up and east left, with stars to magnitude 8 and the NGC and IC objects in the field. The circles show the field of a low-power eyepiece and of 10×50 binoculars.
NGC 5595 is a mixed spiral galaxy in Libra, 101 million light-years away
NGC 5595 is a mixed spiral galaxy in the constellation Libra, 101 million light-years away. It shines at magnitude 12.0 and spans 2.1′ × 1′ of sky, about 62,000 light-years across. It is a telescope object, 6 inches or larger, and it is highest in the evening sky in June.
Galaxy: a system of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity, far outside the Milky Way. Spiral galaxies have a disk with arms; elliptical galaxies are smooth, round or oval swarms of older stars.
Finding NGC 5595 from Zubenelgenubi
NGC 5595 lies 6.4° west of Zubenelgenubi, the magnitude 2.8 star. Three fingers held at arm's length cover about 5°.
NGC 5595 is highest in the evening in June
The chart gives its height above the horizon at 9 pm through the year, from 60°N to 40°S. It can be seen from the whole southern hemisphere and north to about 73°N, and never sets south of 73°S.
NGC 5595 is 101 million light-years away
The light seen from NGC 5595 tonight left it about 101 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Distance source: Cosmicflows-4 (Tully et al. 2023).
Objects within 6° of NGC 5595
17 NGC and IC objects lie within 6°. The nearest that are brighter than magnitude 12.5 or have their own page:
