NGC 4765
| Galaxy NGC 4765 |
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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 53 m 14.4 s |
| declination | + 04 ° 27 ′ 47 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 / a? / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 80 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 292 |
| Redshift | 0.002388 +/- 0.000005 |
| Radial velocity | 716 +/- 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(29 ± 2) x 10 6 ly (8.91 ± 0.62) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 17, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4765 • UGC 8018 • PGC 43775 • CGCG 043-054 • MCG + 01-33-020 • IRAS 12507 + 0444 • VV 366 • GC 3280 • H III 544 • h 1467 • LDCE 0904 NED271 | |
NGC 4765 is a 12.5 likes bright lenticular galaxy of Hubble type S0-a in the constellation Virgo and about 29 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on April 17, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF, vS".