Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 04 09.4
- Declination
- 20 ° 20 ′ 53 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7365 km/s
- Distance
- 340 Mly (105 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 4065 Group
- Type
- E
- Size
- ~150,000 ly (47 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 1.2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 107.44
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4066.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- catalog code
- [ZEH2003] RX J1204.1+2020 1
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1827-02-24
- apparent magnitude
- 15.446
- right ascension
- 181.0392030
- declination
- 20.3479380
- radial velocity
- 7267
- redshift
- 0.024567
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 4066
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4066 is an elliptical galaxy located 340 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785. NGC 4066 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4066” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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