Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.006038
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 190.3054° · Dec 10.1556°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 41 13.286
- Declination
- +10 ° 09 ′ 20.38 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1850 km/s
- Distance
- 56.4 ± 2.6 Mly (17.3 ± 0.8 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB0 (r)
- Size
- ~53,105.36 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.2′ × 2.7′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 20.10
- Image
- NGC 4608 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 42545
- redshift
- 0.006038
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-03-15
- apparent magnitude
- 8.157
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- Commons category
- NGC 4608
- right ascension
- 190.30534648591610
- declination
- 10.15565075602080
- radial velocity
- 1805
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4608 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 15, 1784. At about 56 million light-years (17.3 megaparsecs) away, it is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4608” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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