Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 12 13 16.860
- Declination
- +43 ° 41 ′ 53.77 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 929 km/s
- Distance
- 55 million light years
- Group or cluster
- Ursa Major Cluster
- Type
- Sc
- Size
- 80,000 ly (diameter)
- Apparent size v
- 6.39 x 0.39
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 15
- Image
- Hubble portrays a dusty spiral galaxy.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- catalog code
- RFGC 2222
- Commons category
- NGC 4183
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1778-01-14
- apparent magnitude
- 13.10
- radial velocity
- 933
- redshift
- 0.003102
- right ascension
- 183.3202500
- declination
- 43.6982694
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy with a faint core and an open spiral structure located about 55 million light-years from the Sun. Spanning about eighty thousand light-years, it appears in the constellation of Canes Venatici. NGC 4183 was observed for the first time by British astronomer William Herschel on 14 January 1788.
NGC 4183 is a member of the NGC 4111 Group, which is part of the Ursa Major Cloud and is the second largest group in the cloud after the NGC 3992 Group.
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