Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 05 51.4
- Declination
- 20 ° 31 ′ 19 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7206 km/s
- Distance
- 340 Mly (103 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 4065 Group
- Type
- E?
- Size
- ~116,000 ly (35.5 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.25 x 0.25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 104.98
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4093.jpeg
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- catalog code
- GB6 B1203+2047
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-05-04
- apparent magnitude
- 16.463
- right ascension
- 181.46440
- declination
- 20.52200
- radial velocity
- 7047
- redshift
- 0.024023
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 4093
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4093 is an elliptical galaxy located 340 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on May 4, 1864. NGC 4093 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group and is a radio galaxy with a two sided jet.
A rotating disk in the galaxy was detected by K. Geréb et al.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4093” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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