Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- LIN
- Redshift
- z = 0.002705529101605819
- Morphology
- Sc(dSc)
- Coordinates
- RA 190.9277° · Dec 16.3933°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 43 42.6766
- Declination
- +16 ° 23 ′ 36.222 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 800 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 74.20 ± 3.50 Mly (22.749 ± 1.074 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)c
- Size
- ~87,900 ly (26.95 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 4.0′ × 2.6′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 20.6
- Image
- NGC4651-HST-547-R814GB555.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 4651
- catalog code
- 2MASS J12434265+1623359
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1783-12-30
- apparent magnitude
- 11.595
- right ascension
- 190.927708
- declination
- 16.393333
- radial velocity
- 698
- redshift
- 0.00233
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc(dSc)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4651 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope Spiral galaxy NGC 4651. Credit: ESA / Hubble Space Telescope & NASA, D. Leonard NGC 4651 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that can be seen with amateur telescopes, at a distance not well determined that ranges from 35 million light years to 72 million light years. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 30 December 1783.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4651” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.