NGC 4966

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Galaxy
NGC 4966
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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" .

Web links

  • NGC 4966. SIMBAD, accessed February 23, 2015 .
  • NGC 4966. DSO Browser, accessed February 23, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 4966
  3. Seligman
  4. Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 4966. Deep Sky Observer's Companion, accessed on February 23, 2015 (English).