Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 12 17 29.9
- Declination
- +37 ° 48 ′ 27 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- +244 km/s
- Distance
- 14.1 Mly (4.31 Mpc )
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 17.0 ′ . × 2.2 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 4.5
- Image
- NGC 4244 Sylvain Duguay.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- radial velocity
- 244
- Commons category
- NGC 4244
- catalog code
- Caldwell 26
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-03-17
- apparent magnitude
- 11.470
- declination
- 37.8071111
- right ascension
- 184.3735792
- redshift
- 0.000815
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way. In the sky, it is located near the yellow naked-eye star, Beta Canum Venaticorum, but also near the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4151 and irregular galaxy NGC 4214.
With an apparent V-band magnitude of 10.18, NGC 4244 lies approximately 4.3 megaparsecs (14 million light years) away. A nuclear star cluster and halo is located near the centre of this galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4244” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.