Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 30 02.2
- Declination
- 13 ° 38 ′ 12 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004463/1338 km/s
- Distance
- 54.8 Mly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB0(s)
- Size
- ~69,340 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.8 x 3.5
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Markarian's Chain
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 19.73
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4477.jpg
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- catalog code
- 1E 1227+13.9
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-08
- apparent magnitude
- 10.125
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a-S0/Sa
- redshift
- 0.004490
- Commons category
- NGC 4477
- right ascension
- 187.5083
- declination
- 13.6450
- radial velocity
- 1346
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4477 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. NGC 4477 is classified as a type 2 Seyfert galaxy. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784. NGC 4477 is a member of Markarian's Chain which forms part of the larger Virgo Cluster.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4477” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.