NGC 4776
| Galaxy NGC 4776 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 53 m 04.4 s |
| declination | -09 ° 12 ′ 00 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 ^ 0 ^ pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.9 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 5 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Hickson Compact Group 62 LGG 313 |
| Redshift | 0.011878 +/- 0.000060 |
| Radial velocity | 3561 +/- 18 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(122 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (37.3 ± 3.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 25, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4776, 4759 A • PGC 43754 • MCG -01-32-036 • HCG 62B • GC 3288 • h 3437 • | |
NGC 4776 , also listed twice in the catalog as NGC 4759 A , is a 13.0 mag bright lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble-type S0 in the constellation Virgo and about 122 million light years away from the Milky Way.
Together with NGC 4761 , NGC 4764 and NGC 4778 it forms the "Hickson Compact Group 62" and was discovered on March 25, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel , who mistakenly thought it, together with NGC 4778, to be an object ( NGC 4759 ). Only John Herschel was able to resolve the two individual objects NGC 4776 and NGC 4778 with an 18-inch reflector telescope during his observation on May 5, 1836 and noted “vF, S, R, vlbM; the preceding of a double nebula ".