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NGC 4523

galaxy

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Vinony's link graph records 494 inbound references to NGC 4523, and connects out to NGC 4624, epoch and cosmic distance ladder.

It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1865, Coma Berenices and Discoveries by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.

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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type: GiC
Redshift: z = 0.0008509505010019236
Morphology: SA_B
Coordinates: RA 188.4500° · Dec 15.1683°

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Key facts

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Right ascension: 12 33 48.0000
Declination: 15 ° 10 ′ 05.001 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 259 ± 5 km/s
Distance: 42.38 ± 6.52 Mly (13 ± 2 Mpc )
Group or cluster: Virgo Cluster
Type: SAB(s)m
Size: ~39,600 ly (estimated)
Apparent size v: 2.0 x 1.9

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: spiral galaxy
Part of: Virgo Cluster
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance from Earth: 16.7
Image: SDSS NGC 4523.jpg

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catalog code: Gaia DR2 3933437771030022016
epoch: J2000.0
discoverer or inventor: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
time of discovery or invention: 1865-04-19
apparent magnitude: 13.953
galaxy morphological type: Sd
Commons category: NGC 4523
right ascension: 188.44996354331410
declination: 15.16834689308760
redshift: 0.00112
radial velocity: 336

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4523 is a Magellanic spiral galaxy located about 35 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on April 19, 1865. NGC 4523 is a member of the Virgo Cluster. A distance of (13 ± 2 Mpc) for NGC 4523 was derived from using yellow supergiants in the galaxy as standard candles.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4523” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.