Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.0035353574644803043
- Morphology
- S
- Coordinates
- RA 185.5234° · Dec 9.0436°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 22 05.7
- Declination
- 09 ° 02 ′ 37 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1092 km/s
- Distance
- 65 Mly (20 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- Sb
- Size
- ~95,000 ly (29 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.59 x 0.82
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.02
- Image
- NGC4307 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 40033
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
- apparent magnitude
- 11.406
- Commons category
- NGC 4307
- right ascension
- 185.5234375
- declination
- 9.0435528
- radial velocity
- 982
- redshift
- 0.00328
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4307 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer Christian Peters in 1881 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. It is also a LINER galaxy.
On March 7, 2019 a supernova of an unknown type known as AT 2019bpt was discovered in NGC 4307.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4307” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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