NGC 4960
| Galaxy NGC 4960 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 05 m 47.5 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 44 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) cd |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.008456 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 2535 ± 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(114 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.0 ± 2.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 4960, 4961 • UGC 8185 • PGC 45311 • CGCG 160-134 • MCG + 05-31-126 • IRAS 13033 + 2800 • KUG 1303 + 280 • GC 5716, 3400 • H II 398 • h 1529 • | |
NGC 4960 is a 13.1 mag light barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Haar der Berenike , which is about 114 million light years away from the Milky Way. It belongs to the Coma galaxy cluster and has been discovered twice; first on March 25, 1786 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, which noted "F, S" (observation listed as NGC 4961 ); then on April 23, 1865 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (listed as NGC 4960 ).