NGC 4232
| Galaxy NGC 4232 |
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| NGC 4231 & NGC 4232 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 16 m 49.0 s |
| declination | + 47 ° 26 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 '× 0.7' |
| Position angle | 155 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.024202 ± 0.000131 |
| Radial velocity | 7256 ± 39 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(327 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (100.2 ± 7.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 9, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4232 • UGC 7303 • PGC 39353 • CGCG 243-059 • MCG + 08-22-093 • 2MASX J12164899 + 4726198 • GC 2828 • H III 720 • GALEX MSC J121649.16 + 472619.4 • LDCE 877 NED006 • HOLM 356B | |
NGC 4232 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is an estimated 327 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 125,000 light-years across. Together with NGC 4231 , it forms the gravitationally bound galaxy pair Holm 356 .
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4217 , NGC 4220 , NGC 4226 , NGC 4248 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on March 9, 1788 .
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