Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 30 02.2
- Declination
- 13 ° 38 ′ 12 ″
- Redshift
- 0.004463/1338 km/s
- Distance
- 54.8 Mly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB0(s)
- Size
- ~69,340 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.8 x 3.5
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4477 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. NGC 4477 is classified as a type 2 Seyfert galaxy. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784. NGC 4477 is a member of Markarian's Chain which forms part of the larger Virgo Cluster.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4477” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.