NGC 4679
| Galaxy NGC 4679 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | centaur |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 47 m 30.25 s |
| declination | -39 ° 34 ′ 15.1 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.5 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 4 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 305 |
| Redshift | 0.015489 ± 0.000026 |
| Radial velocity | 4643 ± 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(200 ± 14) x 10 6 ly (61.2 ± 4.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 22, 1835 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4679 • PGC 43170 • ESO 322-82 • MCG -06-28-018 • IRAS 12447-3917 • SGC 124446-3917.9 • GC 3209 • h 3419 • LDCE 0916 NED072 | |
NGC 4679 is a 12.8 mag barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Centaur and about 200 million light years from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on April 22nd, 1835 by John Herschel with an 18-inch reflector telescope, who marked it with “extremely extremely faint, pretty large, round, 60 arcseconds. (No doubt.) ”.