Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 04 32.5192
- Declination
- 20 ° 12 ′ 18.084 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6204 km/s
- Distance
- 313.9 ± 22.0 Mly (96.23 ± 6.74 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 4065 Group
- Type
- Sa
- Size
- ~103,000 ly (31.6 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.9′ × 0.9′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 91.25
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4076.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3951304014637646464
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-27
- apparent magnitude
- 12.316
- redshift
- 0.020713
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- right ascension
- 181.13551952808500
- declination
- 20.20496923205600
- radial velocity
- 6139
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 4076
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4076 is a spiral galaxy located about 314 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785 and is a member of the NGC 4065 Group.
NGC 4076 is classified as a LINER galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4076” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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