Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 29 48.9
- Declination
- 13 ° 25 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2244 km/s
- Distance
- 52.74 M ly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- E5
- Size
- ~ 68.5 kly (estimated); 21 kpc
- Apparent size v
- 4.5' × 2.5'
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4473 is an elliptical galaxy located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784. NGC 4473 has an inclination of about 71°. NGC 4473 is a member of a chain of galaxies called Markarian's Chain which is part of the larger Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
Components
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4473” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.