NGC 4216
| Galaxy NGC 4216 |
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| The galaxies NGC 4206 , NGC 4216 (center) and NGC 4222 , recorded with a 60 cm telescope. | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 15 m 54.4 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 08 ′ 58 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) b: HII / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 8.1 ′ × 1.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 19 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo Galaxy Clusters |
| Redshift | (437 ± 13) · 10 −6 |
| Radial velocity | (131 ± 4) km / s |
| distance | (53 ± 7) · 10 6 Lj / (16.2 ± 2.1) · 10 6 pc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4216 • UGC 7284 • PGC 39246 • CGCG 069-112 • MCG + 02-31-72 • IRAS 12133 + 1325 • 2MASX J12155444 + 1308578 • VCC 167 • GC 2806 • H I 35 • h 1148 • spar 353A • LDCE 0904 NED024 | |
NGC 4216 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Virgo in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 53 million light years from the Milky Way and about 130,000 light years across .
The object is a so-called edge-on galaxy , i. H. we see them almost at the edge. The spiral arms appear here as dark dusty clouds , illuminated by the bright core of the galaxy.
The galaxy is listed under catalog number VCC 167 as part of the Virgo cluster .
The galaxy was discovered on April 17, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
The galaxy NGC 4216 imaged by Galaxy Evolution Explorer