Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 31 24.1
- Declination
- +25 ° 46 ′ 31 ″
- Redshift
- 1342 ± 5 km / s
- Distance
- 45 ± 10 Mly (13.7 ± 3.2 Mpc )
- Type
- E1–2
- Apparent size v
- 4.8 ′ × 3.5 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 20.86
- Image
- NGC 4494 2MASS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 41441
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- Commons category
- NGC 4494
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-06
- apparent magnitude
- 6.998
- right ascension
- 187.8501417
- declination
- 25.7749806
- radial velocity
- 1318
- redshift
- 0.004406
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NGC 4494 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is located at a distance of circa 45 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 4494 is about 60,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1785.
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