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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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 19.8
- Image
- NGC 4217 GALEX WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- [SLK2004] 676
- Commons category
- NGC 4217
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 10.786
- galaxy morphological type
- Sab
- right ascension
- 183.9620833
- declination
- 47.0917889
- radial velocity
- 1023
- redshift
- 0.003419
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4217” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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