NGC 4178
| Galaxy NGC 4178 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 12 m 46.4 s |
| declination | + 10 ° 51 ′ 57 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) dm / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 5.0 '× 1.7' |
| Position angle | 30 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.001248 ± 0.000002 |
| Radial velocity | 374 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(14 ± 1) x 10 6 ly (4.2 ± 0.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1825 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4178 • IC 3042 • UGC 7215 • PGC 38943 • CGCG 069-088 • MCG + 02-31-050 • IRAS 12102 + 1108 • 2MASX J12124644 + 1051575 • VCC 66 • GC 2775 • h 1125 • LDCE 0904 NED010 | |
NGC 4178 = IC 3042 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBcd in the constellation Virgo. It is estimated to be 14 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1825 by John Herschel .