Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 05 40.1
- Declination
- 20 ° 33 ′ 21 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7686 km/s
- Distance
- 360 Mly (109 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 4065 Group
- Type
- Sb
- Size
- ~146,400 ly (44.89 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.1 x 0.25
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 111.26
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4091.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 38308
- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-05-02
- apparent magnitude
- 13.011
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- redshift
- 0.025540
- right ascension
- 181.4170250
- declination
- 20.5555972
- radial velocity
- 7571
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 4091
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4091 is a spiral galaxy located 360 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on May 2, 1864. NGC 4091 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group and is a LINER galaxy.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1108911” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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