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Also known as NGC 4007

spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.01485
Morphology
Sb
Coordinates
RA 179.5423° · Dec 25.1222°
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Key facts

Constellation
Leo
Right ascension
11 58 10.163
Declination
+25 ° 07 ′ 20.03 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4419 ± 3 km/s
Distance
Around 200 million light-years
Apparent magnitude b
1.2' × 0.7'
Type
S

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Leo
Distance from Earth
67.14
Image
NGC4005 - SDSS DR14.jpg
Said to be same as
NGC 4007
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 4006027979662526976
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1785-04-06
apparent magnitude
15.562
Commons category
NGC 4005
right ascension
179.54234637165270
declination
25.12222523445760
redshift
0.014906
radial velocity
4419
epoch
J2000.0
galaxy morphological type
S
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4005 is a spiral galaxy in the Leo constellation, located close to the border with the Coma Berenices. A faintly-glowing galaxy, its apparent magnitude is 13.0.

The American astronomer Barbara A. Williams in 1986 noted that when observations are made of 23 galaxies centred on NGC 4005, a trend is found along the major axis of the group. The correlation in the group between position and velocity's slope is greatly different from 0. Williams put forward the explanation for this that the group rotates with a period of less than 4 billion years, however other interpretations have been discussed.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4005” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.