Key facts
- Constellation
- Draco
- Right ascension
- 12 08 06.017
- Declination
- +65 ° 10 ′ 26.878 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1281 ± 14 km/s
- Distance
- 66.9 ± 4.8 Mly (20.50 ± 1.47 Mpc )
- Type
- E6 pec
- Size
- ~140,000 ly (42.92 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 5.8 ′ × 3.2 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Draco
- Distance from Earth
- 21.4
- Image
- NGC4125-hst-R814G702B555.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- SA0
- catalog code
- LEDA 38524
- Commons category
- NGC 4125
- time of discovery or invention
- 1850-01-04
- discoverer or inventor
- John Russell Hind
- apparent magnitude
- 6.855
- right ascension
- 182.0250708
- declination
- 65.1741333
- radial velocity
- 1341
- redshift
- 0.004483
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4125 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco. It was discovered on 4 January 1850 by English astronomer John Russell Hind.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1109086” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.