Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 42 10.7
- Declination
- 07 ° 40 ′ 37 ″
- Redshift
- 0.006027/1807 km/s
- Distance
- 54,889,674 ly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB0+?, E7
- Size
- ~35,751.52 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.2 x 0.7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 20.15
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4623.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-13
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- declination
- 7.6769333
- catalog code
- LEDA 42647
- apparent magnitude
- 11.445
- Commons category
- NGC 4623
- right ascension
- 190.5446000
- radial velocity
- 1823
- redshift
- 0.006101
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- E-E/S0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4623 is an edge-on lenticular or elliptical galaxy located about 54 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. NGC 4623 is classified as an E7, a rare type of "late" elliptical that represents the first stage of transition into a lenticular galaxy. NGC 4623 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 13, 1784. NGC 4623 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4623” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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