NGC 4929

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Galaxy
NGC 4929
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 02 m 44.4 s
declination + 28 ° 02 ′ 43 ″
Appearance
Morphological type E1  
Brightness  (visual) 13.6 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.6 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.8 ′
Surface brightness 13.2 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation Coma Galaxy
Cluster Abell 1656  
Redshift 0.020718 +/- 0.000083  
Radial velocity 6211 +/- 25 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(278 ± 20)  x  10 6  ly
(85.3 ± 6.0)  Mpc 
history
discovery Heinrich d'Arrest
Discovery date April 20, 1865
Catalog names
NGC  4929 • PGC  45027 • CGCG  160-113 • MCG  + 05-31-111 • GC  5711 • LDCE 0926 NED069

NGC 4929 is a 13.6 likes bright elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E1 in the constellation Coma Berenices , which is about 278 million light-years from the Milky Way's center. It belongs to the Coma galaxy cluster and was discovered on April 20, 1865 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest .

Web links

  • NGC 4929. SIMBAD, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  • NGC 4929. DSO Browser, accessed February 22, 2015 .
  • Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 4929. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 22, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database
  2. a b c d SEDS : NGC 4929
  3. Seligman