Galaxy
NGC 5005 (NGC5005)
In Canes Venatici (CVn) • Magnitude 10.7 • 4.8 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with NGC 5005 pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
Spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici.
NGC 5005 at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 5005 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Canes Venatici (CVn) |
| Right ascension | 13h 10m 56s |
| Declination | +37° 03' 33" |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.70 |
| Surface brightness | 21.8 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 4.8 × 1.5 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 82° |
| Best imaging months | Mar, Apr, May, Jun |
How to image NGC 5005
NGC 5005 sits in the constellation Canes Venatici at right ascension 13h 10m 56s and declination +37° 03' 33". To frame and integrate it well, AstroPlanner will compute the optimal moonless window for tonight from your location, the field-of-view fit against your sensor and focal length, the suggested total integration time given your aperture and sky Bortle class, and a cloud-aware schedule that drops it from the plan if your nearest cloud forecast spike overlaps the best altitude window. As a galaxy, NGC 5005 needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.