Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 12 15 50.900
- Declination
- +47 ° 05 ′ 30.44 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1023 km/s
- Distance
- 61.6 Mly (18.88 Mpc )
- Type
- Sb
- Apparent size v
- 5.012′ × 1.479′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4217 is an edge-on spiral galaxy which lies approximately 60 million light-years (18 million parsecs) away in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It is a possible companion galaxy to Messier 106 (NGC 4258).
One supernova, SN 2022myz (type I, mag. 19), was discovered in NGC 4217 on 19 June 2022.
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