NGC 4536
| Galaxy NGC 4536 |
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| Image taken with a 60 cm telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 34 m 27.0 s |
| declination | + 02 ° 11 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) bc / HII / Sbrst |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 7.60 × 3.2 |
| Position angle | 130 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
M61 group Virgo cluster |
| Redshift | 0.006031 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (1808 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(77 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (23.6 ± 1.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 24, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4536 • UGC 7732 • PGC 41823 • CGCG 014-068 • MCG + 00-32-023 • IRAS 12318 + 0227 • 2MASX J12342712 + 0211163 • VCC 1562 • GC 3085 • H V 2 • h 1337 • UM 506 | |
NGC 4536 is a bar-spiral galaxy with a high rate of star formation and large-area star formation regions of the Hubble type SAB (rs) bc in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 77 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 180,000 ly. It is listed as a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster under catalog number VCC 1562 .
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4527 , NGC 4533 , NGC 4544 , IC 3474 .
The object was discovered on January 24, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
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