Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiP
- Redshift
- z = 0.00352
- Morphology
- S_AB
- Coordinates
- RA 185.5515° · Dec 7.1444°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 22 12.3567
- Declination
- +07 ° 08 ′ 39.632 ″
- Redshift
- 0.003 479 ± 0.000 0111
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,043 ± 3 km/s km/s
- Distance
- 66.7 ± 4.8 Mly (20.44 ± 1.48 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SAB0^+(r)
- Size
- ~63,600 ly (19.50 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.01′ × 0.91′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.00
- Image
- NGC 4309 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 4309
- catalog code
- LEDA 40051
- redshift
- 0.00352
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
- apparent magnitude
- 9.771
- right ascension
- 185.5514542
- declination
- 7.1443889
- radial velocity
- 751
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4309 is a lenticular galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Christian Peters in 1881 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
NGC 4309 is classified as an AGN and has undergone ram-pressure stripping.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1110599” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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