NGC 4473
| Galaxy NGC 4473 |
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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 29 m 48.9 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 25 ′ 46 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E5 |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.50 × 2.5 |
| Position angle | 94 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo cluster |
| Redshift | 0.007485 ± 0.000006 |
| Radial velocity | 2244 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(98 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (30.1 ± 2.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 8, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4473 • UGC 7631 • PGC 41228 • MCG + 02-32-093 • 2MASX J12294887 + 1325455 • VCC 1231 • GC 3030 • H II 114 • LDCE 904 NED147 | |
NGC 4473 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E5 in the constellation Coma Berenices the northern sky . It is estimated to be 98 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 130,000 ly. It belongs to both the Virgo Galaxy Cluster ( VCC 1231 ) and the Markarjan Chain .
The object was discovered on April 8, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
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