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
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- 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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