NGC 4146
| Galaxy NGC 4146 |
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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 10 m 18.2 s |
| declination | + 26 ° 25 ′ 51 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SAB (s) from: / PAS |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 '× 1.2' |
| Position angle | 66 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021748 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | 6520 ± 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(291 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (89.1 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 6, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4146 • UGC 7163 • PGC 38721 • CGCG 158-036 • MCG + 05-29-028 • 2MASX J12101822 + 2625508 • GC 2753 • H III 327 • LDCE 0872 NED011 | |
NGC 4146 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 291 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 6, 1785 .