NGC 4416
| Galaxy NGC 4416 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 26 m 46.7 s |
| declination | + 07 ° 55 ′ 08 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) cd: / HII / Sbrst |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 108 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo cluster |
| Redshift | 0.004637 ± 0.000008 |
| Radial velocity | 1390 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(59 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (18.1 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1825 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4416 • UGC 7541 • PGC 40743 • CGCG 042-105 • MCG + 01-32-63 • IRAS 12242 + 0811 • 2MASX J12264672 + 0755084 • VCC 938 • Mrk 1326 • LDCE 904 NED112 | |
NGC 4416 is a bar-spiral galaxy with a high rate of star formation of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Virgo at the ecliptic . It is an estimated 59 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 30,000 ly. The galaxy is listed under catalog number VCC 938 as a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster .
The galaxies NGC 4415 , NGC 4434 , IC 789 , IC 3322 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1825 by John Herschel .