NGC 4814
| Galaxy NGC 4814 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 55 m 21.9 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 20 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3.3 ′ × 2.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 129 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008396 +/- 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | 2517 +/- 3 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(117 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.9 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4814 • UGC 8051 • PGC 44025 • CGCG 294-003, 293-044 • MCG + 10-19-003 • IRAS 12532 + 5836 • GC 3315 • H I 243 • h 1483 • | |
NGC 4814 is an 11.7 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sb pec in the constellation Great Bear , about 117 million light years away from the Milky Way.
It was discovered on March 17, 1790 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "cB, S, R, gbM".