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NGC 4208

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Right ascension: 12 15 39.3
Declination: 13 ° 54 ′ 05 ″
Redshift: -0.000270, (minus sign , indicates blueshift )
Heliocentric radial velocity: -81 km/s
Distance: 53 Mly (16.4 Mpc )
Group or cluster: Virgo Cluster
Type: SAc, LINER
Size: ~55,000 ly (17 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v: 3.2 x 1.9

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Image: SDSS NGC 4212.jpg

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NGC 4212 is a flocculent spiral galaxy with LINER activity located about 53 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784, and was listed in the NGC catalog as NGC 4208. He then observed the same galaxy and listed it as NGC 4212. Astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer later concluded that NGC 4208 was identical to NGC 4212. NGC 4212 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.