Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 08 37.5
- Declination
- −49 ° 30 ′ 23 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1453 ± 24 km/ s
- Distance
- 41 ± 17 M ly , (12.5 ± 5.3 M pc )
- Type
- E4 pec
- Apparent size v
- 5.6 ′ × 3.0 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 19.23
- Image
- NGC 4976 2MASS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 45562
- Commons category
- NGC 4976
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-03-31
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 6.847
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- redshift
- 0.004710
- right ascension
- 197.1563583
- declination
- -49.5064083
- radial velocity
- 1409
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4976 is a peculiar elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It was detected with a 5" telescope working at 20x magnification by comet hunter Jack Bennett.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1116069” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.