NGC 4175
| Galaxy NGC 4175 |
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| The galaxies NGC 4169, NGC 4173, NGC 4174 and NGC 4175 (from right to left, NGC 4175 is at the top left) imaged with a 60 cm telescope. Together they form the Hickson Compact Group 61. | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 12 m 31.0 s |
| declination | + 29 ° 10 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 'x 0.4' |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | HGC 61 |
| Redshift | 0.013384 +/- 0.000022 |
| Radial velocity | (4012 +/- 7) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(179 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (54.9 ± 3.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4175 • UGC 7211 • PGC 38912 • CGCG 158-045 • MCG + 05-29-036 • IRAS 12099 + 2926 • 2MASX J12123108 + 2910069 • HCG 61C • GC 2773 • H III 360 • h 1124 • LDCE 875 NED007 | |
NGC 4175 is a spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Haar der Berenike in the northern sky . It is estimated 179 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 95,000 ly.
Together with NGC 4169 , NGC 4173 and NGC 4174 , it forms the Hickson Compact Group 61 ( The Box ).
The object was discovered on April 11, 1785 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel .
Web links
Commons : NGC 4175 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [1]