NGC 4834
Galaxy NGC 4834 |
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SDSS recording | |
AladinLite | |
Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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 |
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”.