NGC 4089

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Galaxy
NGC 4089
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NGC 4091 & NGC 4089 [1]
NGC 4091 & NGC 4089
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 05 m 37.431 s
declination + 20 ° 33 ′ 20.55 ″
Appearance
Morphological type E?  
Brightness  (visual) 13.7 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.7 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.8 ′
Surface brightness 13.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation WBL 374  
Redshift 0.024240 ± 0.000087  
Radial velocity 7267 ± 26 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(323 ± 23)  x  10 6  ly
(99.0 ± 6.9)  Mpc 
history
discovery Heinrich d'Arrest
Discovery date May 4, 1864
Catalog names
NGC  4089 • PGC  38298 • CGCG  128-020 • MCG  + 04-29-017 • 2MASX  J12053741 + 2033207 • GALEX ASC J120537.54 + 203320.9 • LDCE 864 NED014 • WISEA J120537.43 + 203320.5

NGC 4089 is an elliptical galaxy of the Hubble type E0 with an active galaxy core in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is an estimated 323 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years in diameter. Presumably it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair together with NGC 4091 .

In the same area of ​​the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4092 , NGC 4093 , NGC 4095 , NGC 4098 .

The object was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on May 4, 1864 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 4089  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 4089
  4. Seligman