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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 41 31.46397
Declination
+26 ° 02 ′ 33.6235 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4741 km/s
Distance
234.9 Mly (72.03 Mpc )
Type
SB0/a

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4614 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the New General Catalog. It is located in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered on 9 May 1864 by German astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest, with a 11.9 inch (11 inch) diameter lens type telescope.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4614” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.