NGC 4481
| Galaxy NGC 4481 |
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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 29 m 48.6 s |
| declination | + 64 ° 01 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab? / BrClG |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.70 × 0.3 |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007672 +/- 0.000153 |
| Radial velocity | 2300 +/- 46 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(108 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (33.1 ± 2.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Louis d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | October 7, 1866 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4481 • PGC 41222 • CGCG 315-040 • MCG + 11-15-057 • IRAS 12275 + 6418 • 2MASX J12294832 + 6402020 • LDCE 0889 NED007 | |
NGC 4481 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sab in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 108 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 20,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 4441 , NGC 4510 , NGC 4512 , among others .
The object was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on October 7, 1866 .