NGC 4104

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Galaxy
NGC 4104
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 06 m 38.9 s
declination + 28 ° 10 ′ 27 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0; BrClG  
Brightness  (visual) 12.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 13.1 mag
Angular expansion 2.6 '× 1.6'
Position angle 35 °
Surface brightness 13.5 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.028196 ± 0.000107  
Radial velocity 8453 ± 32 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(377 ± 26)  ·  10 6  ly
(115.6 ± 8.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery William Herschel
Discovery date April 11, 1785
Catalog names
NGC  4104 • UGC  7099 • PGC  38407 • CGCG  158-024 • MCG  + 05-29-016 • IRAS  12040 + 2827 • 2MASX  i J1206383 + 281028 • GC  2719 • H  II 370 • h  1086 •

NGC 4104 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0-a in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is an estimated 377 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 11, 1785 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 4104  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 4104
  3. Seligman