Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.00159
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 191.1225° · Dec 13.4986°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 44 29.4
- Declination
- 13 ° 29 ′ 55 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 480 km/s
- Distance
- 54 Mly (16.5 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- ~6,700 ly (2.04 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.76 x 1.12
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 19.03
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4659.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3929268526012368512
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-12
- apparent magnitude
- 11.595
- redshift
- 0.000891
- Commons category
- NGC 4659
- right ascension
- 191.12245193474850
- declination
- 13.49856747700060
- radial velocity
- 476
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4659 is a lenticular galaxy located about 54 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. NGC 4659 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 12, 1784 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4659” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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