Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- H2G
- Redshift
- z = -0.00026681568085606955
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 183.9139° · Dec 13.9015°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 15 39.3
- Declination
- 13 ° 54 ′ 05 ″
- Redshift
- -0.000270, (minus sign , indicates blueshift )
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- -81 km/s
- Distance
- 53 Mly (16.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SAc, LINER
- Size
- ~55,000 ly (17 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.2 x 1.9
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- flocculent spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 22
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4212.jpg
- Said to be same as
- NGC 4212
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- catalog code
- LEDA 39224
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- -0.00052
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-08
- apparent magnitude
- 8.375
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc(dSc)
- Commons category
- NGC 4208
- right ascension
- 183.91391940842010
- declination
- 13.90150693475720
- radial velocity
- -156
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4212 is a flocculent spiral galaxy with LINER activity located about 53 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784, and was listed in the NGC catalog as NGC 4208. He then observed the same galaxy and listed it as NGC 4212. Astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer later concluded that NGC 4208 was identical to NGC 4212. NGC 4212 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4208” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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