NGC 4868
| Galaxy NGC 4868 |
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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 59 m 08.9 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 18 ′ 37 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 90 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 319 |
| Redshift | 0.015561 +/- 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 4665 +/- 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(210 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (64.5 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4868 • UGC 8099 • PGC 44557 • CGCG 189-008 • MCG + 06-29-004 • IRAS 12567 + 3734 • KUG 1256 + 375 • 2MASX J12590891 + 3718370 • GC 3341 • H II 644 • LDCE 929 NED002 | |
NGC 4868 is a 12.2 likes bright spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Canes Venatici on the northern sky . It is estimated to be 210 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 95,000 ly. Together with NGC 4846 and NGC 4914 , it forms the small galaxy group LGG 319.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 4870 , NGC 4893 , IC 3956 , IC 4016 .
The object was discovered on March 17, 1787 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "pB, S, R, mbM, among scattered stars".