Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 46,794 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.00299
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 187.3787° · Dec 14.0491°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 29 30.9
- Declination
- 14 ° 02 ′ 57 ″
- Redshift
- 0.003032/909 km/s
- Distance
- 55,100,000 ly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- E, SA0-?
- Size
- ~22,700 ly
- Apparent size v
- 1.45 x 0.96
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4468 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1787. It is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4468” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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