Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.00506
- Morphology
- S
- Coordinates
- RA 187.4731° · Dec 14.0686°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 29 53.5
- Declination
- 14 ° 04 ′ 07 ″
- Redshift
- 0.005374/1611 km/s
- Distance
- 51,481,920 ly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- S0 pec
- Size
- ~36,055.6 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.11 x 1.12
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 19.72
- Image
- NGC 4474.png
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- catalog code
- LEDA 41241
- radial velocity
- 1513
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-08
- apparent magnitude
- 11.055
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 4474
- right ascension
- 187.4731000
- declination
- 14.0686722
- redshift
- 0.00506
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4474 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. NGC 4474 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784. It is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4474” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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