NGC 4966
| Galaxy NGC 4966 |
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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 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 |
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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" .