NGC 4144
| Galaxy NGC 4144 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 09 m 58.6 s |
| declination | + 46 ° 27 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) cd? / sp / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 6.1 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 104 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | CVn II group LGG 290 |
| Redshift | 0.000884 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 265 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(14 ± 1) x 10 6 ly (4.37 ± 0.31) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 10, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4144 • UGC 7151 • PGC 38688 • CGCG 243-048 • MCG + 08-22-077 • IRAS 12074 + 4644 • 2MASX J12095860 + 4627258 • GC 2749 • H II 747 • h 1107 • HIJASS J1210 + 46 • LDCE 867 NED082 | |
NGC 4144 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 14 million light years from the Milky Way and 25,000 light years across.
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 10, 1788 .
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