NGC 4432

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Galaxy
NGC 4432
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NGC 4432 & NGC 4430 (ro) [1] SDSS
NGC 4432 & NGC 4430 (ro) SDSS
AladinLite
Constellation Virgin
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 27 m 33.0 s
declination + 06 ° 14 '00 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sbc  
Brightness  (visual) 14.0 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.8 mag
Angular expansion 0.9 '× 0.7'
Position angle 6 °
Surface brightness 13.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation Virgo cluster (??)  
Redshift 0.021355 +/- 0.000003  
Radial velocity 6402 +/- 1 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(283 ± 20)  x  10 6  ly
(86.7 ± 6.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Albert Marth
Discovery date March 22, 1865
Catalog names
NGC  4432 • UGC  7570 • PGC  40875 • CGCG  042-114 • MCG  + 01-32-068 • 2MASX  J12273295 + 0613595 • VCC  1018 •

NGC 4432 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 283 million light years from the Milky Way and about 75,000 light years across .
The galaxies NGC 4423 , NGC 4430 , NGC 4453 , IC 3414 are in the same area of ​​the sky .

The object was discovered by Albert Marth on March 22, 1865 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 4432
  4. Seligman