NGC 4782
| Galaxy NGC 4782 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Crow |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 54 m 35.7 s |
| declination | -12 ° 34 ′ 07 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E0 pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 ′ × 1.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 155 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015437 +/- 0.000063 |
| Radial velocity | 4628 +/- 19 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(202 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (61.8 ± 4.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 27, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4782 • PGC 43924 • MCG -02-33-050 • VV 201a • GC 3293 • H I 135 • LDCE 0921 NED039 | |
NGC 4782 is a 11.7 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E in the constellation Raven and about 202 million light-years from the Milky Way center.
It was discovered on March 27, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pretty faint, pretty small, round, much brighter in the middle, preceding of double nebula".