Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.011935
- Coordinates
- RA 191.9264° · Dec -41.5282°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 12 47 42.4
- Declination
- −41 ° 31 ′ 42 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3570 km/s
- Distance
- 172 Mly (52.6 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Centaurus Cluster
- Type
- SB0-(s)
- Size
- ~76,500 ly (23.44 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 x 0.8
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 60.13
- Image
- NGC 4683 2MASS.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- catalog code
- FAUST 3470
- radial velocity
- 3557
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-06-08
- apparent magnitude
- 9.442
- redshift
- 0.011935
- right ascension
- 191.9266042
- declination
- -41.5282806
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- -3.0
- Commons category
- NGC 4683
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4683 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 170 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on June 8, 1834. NGC 4683 is a member of the Centaurus Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4683” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 29 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- Русский
- Português
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Catalan
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Greek
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0