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galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 4627 is referenced by 505 other articles, and connects out to NGC 4395, NGC 4624 and NGC 4656 and NGC 4657.

Vinony files it under Canes Venatici, Dwarf elliptical galaxies and Interacting galaxies.

Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Canes Venatici
Right ascension
12 41 59.7
Declination
+32 ° 34 ′ 25 ″
Redshift
542 ± 16 km/ s
Distance
30.3 Mly
Type
E4 pec
Apparent size v
2.6 ′ × 1.8 ′

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Canes Venatici
Distance from Earth
9.0
Image
NGC 4627 I FUV g2006.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 1514507070317448576
Commons category
NGC 4627
Commons gallery
NGC 4627
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1787-03-20
apparent magnitude
13.089
right ascension
190.49986648075540
declination
32.57355853158520
parallax
0.2395
redshift
0.002552
radial velocity
828
epoch
J2000.0
galaxy morphological type
Epec
right ascension component of proper motion
-1.370
declination component of proper motion
-4.573
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4627 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy lies about 30 million light years away from Earth. NGC 4627 is located 3 arcminutes northwest of the nucleus of NGC 4631, a spiral galaxy which interacts with it.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4627” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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