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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Right ascension
12 06 08.602
Declination
+49 ° 34 ′ 56.32 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1,072 ± 6 km/s
Distance
65.1 Mly (20.0 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 3992 group
Type
SAbc
Mass
33.3 +10.7, −12.7 × 10 M ☉

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Ursa Major
Distance from Earth
19.8
Image
NGC 4100 GALEX WikiSky.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 38370
Commons category
NGC 4100
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1788-00-00
apparent magnitude
11.040
galaxy morphological type
SAbc
right ascension
181.5358417
declination
49.5823111
redshift
0.003582
radial velocity
1153
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4100 is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Herschel on Mar 9, 1788. This galaxy is a member of the NGC 3992 group in the Ursa Major Cluster.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4100” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.