NGC 4662
| Galaxy NGC 4662 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 44 m 26.2 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 07 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 55 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | isolated |
| Redshift | 0.023299 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 6985 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(314 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (96.2 ± 6.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4662 • UGC 7917 • PGC 42904 • CGCG 188-018 • MCG + 06-28-025 • IRAS F12420 + 3723 • 2MASX J12442621 + 3707167 • GC 3195 • H II 643 • h 1418 • GALEX ASC J124426.13 + 370717.5 • KIG 550 • 2MIG 1767 | |
NGC 4662 is a 12.7 mag bright bar spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 314 million light years from the Milky Way and about 175,000 light years in diameter.
The galaxies IC 3746 , IC 3751 , IC 3772 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on March 17, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "F, pL, gbM, resolvable".