NGC 4403
| Galaxy NGC 4403 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 26 m 12.9 s |
| declination | -07 ° 41 ′ 04 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 27 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017345 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | (5200 ± 9) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(227 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (69.6 ± 4.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 20, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4403 • PGC 40656 • MCG -01-32-008 • IRAS 12236-0724 • 2MASX J12261279-0741059 • H III 705 • LEDA 40656 • LDCE 896 NED003 | |
NGC 4403 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Virgo north of the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 227 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 110,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 4404 , NGC 4428 and NGC 4433 .
The object was discovered on March 20, 1789 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .