NGC 4408
| Galaxy NGC 4408 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 26 m 17.2 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 52 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 30 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025094 ± 0.000080 |
| Radial velocity | 7523 ± 24 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(336 ± 23) x 10 6 ly (103.0 ± 7.2) Mpc |
| diameter | 70,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Louis d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | April 21, 1865 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4408 • PGC 40668 • CGCG 158-107 • 2MASX J12261724 + 2752158 • | |
NGC 4408 is a lenticular S0- type galaxy in the constellation Haar der Berenice in the northern sky. It is about 336 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 light years .
The object was discovered on April 21, 1865 by the German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest .