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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Virgo
Right ascension
12 32 45.586
Declination
+00 ° 06 ′ 54.14 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1131 km/s
Distance
40 million ly
Type
Sc(dSc)
Apparent size v
10.733 x 1.717 82

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Virgo
Distance from Earth
9
Image
Potw1330a.jpg
Said to be same as
NGC 4437
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catalog code
Z 1230.2+0024
Commons category
NGC 4517
galaxy morphological type
Sc(dSc)
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
redshift
0.003739
right ascension
188.1899417
declination
0.1150389
apparent magnitude
11.33
radial velocity
1218
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4517 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel. It is a member of the Virgo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4517” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.