NGC 4441
| Galaxy NGC 4441 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 27 m 20.3 s |
| declination | + 64 ° 48 ′ 05 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB0 + / pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.20 × 2.5 |
| Position angle | 9 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009080 +/- 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (2722 +/- 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(127 ± 9) x 10 6 ly (38.9 ± 2.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 20, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4441 • UGC 7572 • PGC 40836 • CGCG 315-039 • MCG + 11-15-056 • IRAS 12250 + 6504 • 2MASX J12272040 + 6448056 • GC 2998/3016 • H II 848 • h 1278/1291 • LDCE 0889 NED006 | |
NGC 4441 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type SB0-a in the constellation Dragons in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 127 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 115,000 ly.
The object was discovered by William Herschel on March 20, 1790 .