NGC 4332
| Galaxy NGC 4332 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 22 m 46.7 s |
| declination | + 65 ° 50 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) a / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 'x 1.5' |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 4256 group LGG 277 |
| Redshift | 0.009233 ± 0.000095 |
| Radial velocity | 2768 ± 28 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(129 ± 9) · 10 6 ly (39.5 ± 2.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 20, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4332 • UGC 7453 • PGC 40133 • CGCG 315-033 • MCG + 11-15-048 • IRAS 12204 + 6607 • 2MASX J12224682 + 6550373 • GC 2895 • H II 847 • h 1216 • GALEX ASC J122246.75 + 655039.8 • LDCE 889 NED005 | |
NGC 4332 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Dragons in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 129 million light years from the Milky Way and about 80,000 light years in diameter.
Together with NGC 4108 , NGC 4210 , NGC 4221 , NGC 4256 , NGC 4513 and PGC 38461 , it forms the NGC 4256 group .
The Type Ia supernova SN 2009an was observed here.
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on March 20, 1790 .