Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 35 36.6
- Declination
- 03 ° 02 ′ 04 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1154 km/s
- Distance
- 52 Mly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB0/a?
- Size
- ~44,000 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.0 x 0.6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 18.71
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4544.jpeg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3706512761623911680
- time of discovery or invention
- 1887-04-27
- discoverer or inventor
- Edward D. Swift
- apparent magnitude
- 12.386
- redshift
- 0.003849
- Commons category
- NGC 4544
- right ascension
- 188.90231827162660
- declination
- 3.03448520163300
- radial velocity
- 1013
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc(dSc)
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4544 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 52 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. NGC 4544 was discovered by astronomer Edward Swift on April 27, 1887. NGC 4544 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4544” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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