Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.0008843358770940224
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 182.4942° · Dec 46.4572°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 12 09 58
- Declination
- +46 ° 27 ′ 25 ″
- Type
- Im/ BCD C
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 9.8
- Image
- NGC 4144 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 660
- Commons category
- NGC 4144
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 11.844
- radial velocity
- 264
- galaxy morphological type
- Im/BCD
- right ascension
- 182.4941708
- declination
- 46.4571806
- redshift
- 0.000884
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4144 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Ursa Major constellation. It was discovered by the German-born British astronomer William Herschel on April 10, 1788. The galaxy is also known by several other catalog names, including IRAS F12074+4644, 2MASX J12095860+4627258, UGC 7151, and PGC 38688. It has an apparent magnitude of 12.17 in the blue band.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4144” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.