NGC 4533
| Galaxy NGC 4533 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 34 m 22.0 s |
| declination | + 02 ° 19 ′ 31 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 161 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.005847 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 1753 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(75 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (22.9 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ernst Temple |
| Discovery date | 1877 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4533 • UGC 7725 • PGC 41816 • CGCG 042-157 • MCG + 01-32-102 • VCC 1557 • USGC U490 NED113 | |
NGC 4533 is a spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type Scd in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 75 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 50,000 ly. It is listed as a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster under catalog number VCC 1557 .
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4527 , NGC 4536 , NGC 4544 , IC 3474 .
The object was discovered in 1877 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel .
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