NGC 4074

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Galaxy
NGC 4074
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 04 m 29.7 s
declination + 20 ° 18 ′ 58 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0: pec / Sy2  
Brightness  (visual) 14.5 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.5 mag
Angular expansion 1.0 '× 0.6'
Position angle 11 °
Surface brightness 13.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.021752 ± 0.000097  
Radial velocity 6521 ± 29 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(299 ± 21)  ·  10 6  ly
(91.6 ± 6.4)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 27, 1785
Catalog names
NGC  4074 • PGC  38207 • CGCG  128-013 • MCG  + 04-29-011 • 2MASX  J12041380 + 2012351 • GC  2697 • H  III 393 • h  1073 • LDCE 0864 NED009

NGC 4074 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Haar der Berenike. It is estimated to be 299 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 27, 1785 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 4074
  3. Seligman