NGC 4064
| Galaxy NGC 4064 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 04 m 11.1 s |
| declination | + 18 ° 26 ′ 36 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) a: pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.4 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo cluster |
| Redshift | 0.003045 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 913 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(39 ± 3) x 10 6 ly (11.9 ± 0.8) Mpc |
| diameter | 60,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Louis d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | December 29, 1861 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4064 • UGC 7054 • PGC 38167 • CGCG 098-044 • MCG + 03-31-033 • IRAS 12016 + 1843 • 2MASX J12041119 + 1826364 • GC 2688 • NVSS J120410 + 182640 • LDCE 904 NED002 • EVCC 93 | |
NGC 4064 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa and is located in the constellation Haar der Berenike in the northern sky . It is an estimated 39 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 55,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 4110 , NGC 4040 , NGC 4048 , NGC 4049 .
The object was discovered on December 29, 1861 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest .