NGC 4927

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Galaxy
NGC 4927
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 01 m 57.6 s
declination + 28 ° 00 ′ 21 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SA0-  
Brightness  (visual) 13.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.8 mag
Angular expansion 0.6 ′ × 0.4 ′
Position angle 15 °
Surface brightness 12.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation Coma Galaxy
Cluster Abell 1656  
Redshift 0.025898 ± 0.000042  
Radial velocity 7764 ± 13 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(348 ± 24)  x  10 6  ly
(106.6 ± 7.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 11, 1785
Catalog names
NGC  4927 • PGC  44945 • CGCG  160-105 • MCG  + 05-31-104 • GC  3372 • H  III 364 • LDCE 0926 NED067

NGC 4927 is a 13.8 likes bright radio galaxy from the Hubble type e-S0 in the constellation Coma Berenices , which is about 348 million light-years from the Milky Way's center. It belongs to the Coma galaxy cluster and was discovered on April 11, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "vF".

Web links

  • NGC 4927. SIMBAD, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  • NGC 4927. DSO Browser, accessed February 22, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 4927
  3. Seligman
  4. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 4927. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 22, 2015 (English).