NGC 4575
| Galaxy NGC 4575 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | centaur |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 37 m 51.12 s |
| declination | -40 ° 32 ′ 14.5 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.0 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 106 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009898 ± 0.000022 |
| Radial velocity | 2967 ± 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(125 ± 9) x 10 6 ly (38.2 ± 2.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | June 8, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4575 • PGC 42181 • ESO 322-G036 • MCG -07-26-015 • 2MASX J12375111-4032146 • SGC 123509-4015.7 • GC 3116 • h 3403 • HIPASS J1237-40 • LDCE 916 NED038 | |
NGC 4575 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Centaur in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 125 million light years from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4507 , NGC 4601 , NGC 4603 .
The object was discovered on June 8, 1834 by John Herschel using an 18-inch reflector telescope.