Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.0008509505010019236
- Morphology
- SA_B
- Coordinates
- RA 188.4500° · Dec 15.1683°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Part of
- Virgo Cluster
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 16.7
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4523.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- 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
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
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.
Supernova
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4523” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 28 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- Русский
- Português
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Greek
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
- Polski
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0