Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 3,145 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.00379
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 190.4973° · Dec 12.9428°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 41 59.3
- Declination
- 12 ° 56 ′ 34 ″
- Redshift
- 0.003805/1141 km/s
- Distance
- 65,240,000 ly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- S0
- Size
- ~36,469.16 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.59 x 1.23
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.48
- Image
- NGC 4620 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3929129850107094912
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1830-03-29
- apparent magnitude
- 12.131
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a-S0/Sa
- Commons category
- NGC 4620
- right ascension
- 190.49728642313260
- declination
- 12.94284898571370
- parallax
- 1.0371
- redshift
- 0.00379
- radial velocity
- 1134
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -1.009
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.590
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4620 is a lenticular galaxy located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on March 29, 1830. NGC 4620 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4620” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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