NGC 4966
Galaxy NGC 4966 |
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SDSS recording | |
AladinLite | |
Constellation | Berenike's hair |
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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Right ascension | 13 h 06 m 17.3 s |
declination | + 29 ° 03 ′ 46 ″ |
Appearance | |
Morphological type | Sa / LINER |
Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
Angular expansion | 1.0 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
Position angle | 143 ° |
Surface brightness | 12.3 mag / arcmin² |
Physical data | |
Redshift | 0.023476 +/- 0.000083 |
Radial velocity | 7038 +/- 25 km / s |
Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(315 ± 22) · 10 6 ly (96.7 ± 6.8) Mpc |
history | |
discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
Discovery date | March 13, 1785 |
Catalog names | |
NGC 4966 • UGC 8194 • PGC 45358 • CGCG 160-137 • MCG + 05-31-131 • IRAS 13039 + 2919 • GC 3405 • H III 304 • h 1531 • LDCE 0926 NED075 |
NGC 4966 is a 13.2 likes bright barred spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus from Hubble type SBab in the constellation Coma Berenices , which is about 315 million light-years from the Milky Way's center. It belongs to the Coma galaxy cluster and was discovered on March 13, 1785 by Wilhelm Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflector telescope, who described it as "eF, vS, verified with 240 power, just Nf a star 8 or 9m" .