NGC 4450
| Galaxy NGC 4450 |
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| The galaxy NGC 4450 imaged with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory (north approximately in the upper left corner) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 28 m 29.6 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 05 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) from / LINER / Sy3 |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 10.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 5.4 ′ × 4.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 175 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo Galaxy Clusters |
| Redshift | 0.006518 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | (1954 ± 4) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(85 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (26.2 ± 1.8) Mpc |
| diameter | 80,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 14, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4450 • UGC 7594 • PGC 41024 • CGCG 99-62 • MCG + 03-32-048 • IRAS 12259 + 1721 • VCC 1110 • GC 3003 • H II 56 / II 90 • h 1282 • LDCE 0904 NED132 | |
NGC 4450 is a spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SA (s) ab in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is an estimated 85 million light years away from the Milky Way , has a disk diameter of about 83,000 ly, and is a member of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster .
The object was discovered on March 14, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
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