NGC 4375

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Galaxy
NGC 4375
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 25 m 00.5 s
declination + 28 ° 33 ′ 31 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (r) from pec:  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.8 mag
Angular expansion 1.4 ′ × 1.2 ′
Position angle 5 °
Surface brightness 13.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.030218 ± 0.000027  
Radial velocity 9059 ± 8 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(405 ± 28)  ·  10 6  Lj
(124.1 ± 8.7)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 11, 1785
Catalog names
NGC  4375 • UGC  7496 • PGC  40449 • CGCG  158-100 • MCG  + 05-29-80 • IRAS  12224 + 2850 • GC  2931 • H  II 379 • h  1238 •

NGC 4375 is a barred spiral galaxy of the type SBab / P in the constellation Haar der Berenike in the northern sky . It is around 405 million light years away from the Milky Way .

On June 18, 1960, the supernova SN 1960J was discovered by Milton Humason .

The galaxy was discovered on April 11, 1785 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 4375
  3. ^ Searching NED for object "SN 1960J *". In: NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved September 30, 2008 .
  4. ^ List of Supernovae. HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS, accessed March 20, 2008 .
  5. Seligman