NGC 4527
| Galaxy NGC 4527 |
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| SDSS recording, angle of view 7 '× 7' | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 34 m 08.4 s |
| declination | + 02 ° 39 ′ 13 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) bc / HII / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 6.2 ′ × 2.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 67 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo cluster |
| Redshift | 0.005791 +/- 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 1736 +/- 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(74 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (22.7 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | February 23, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4527 • UGC 7721 • PGC 41789 • CGCG 042-156 • MCG + 01-32-101 • IRAS 12315 + 0255 • 2MASX J12340849 + 0239137 • VCC 1540 • GC 3076 • H II 37 • h 1330 • LDCE 904 NED182 • SDSS J123408.44 + 023913.7 | |
NGC 4527 is an active bar-spiral galaxy with large-area star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 74 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 140,000 ly. It is listed as a member of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster under catalog number VCC 1540 .
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4533 , NGC 4536 , NGC 4544 , IC 3474 .
The object was discovered on February 23, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
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