NGC 4834
| Galaxy NGC 4834 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 56 m 25.3 s |
| declination | + 52 ° 17 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 108 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.034494 +/- 0.000107 |
| Radial velocity | 10,341 +/- 32 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(466 ± 33) · 10 6 ly (142.9 ± 10.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 26, 1789 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4834 • PGC 44136 • CGCG 270-034 • MCG + 09-21-067 • 2MASX J12562525 + 5217453 • GC 3326 • H III 817 • h 1488 • | |
NGC 4834 is a 14.8 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Canes Venatici on the northern sky . It is an estimated 466 million light years from the Milky Way and about 125,000 light years across .
The galaxy NGC 4801 is located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on April 26, 1789 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as “cF, S, iF”.