Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- EmG
- Distance
- 12,184 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.012552
- Coordinates
- RA 192.4757° · Dec -41.2794°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 12 49 54.1
- Declination
- −41 ° 16 ′ 46 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3862 km/s
- Distance
- 157 Mly (48.2 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Centaurus Cluster
- Type
- SAB(s)0^0
- Size
- ~86,700 ly (26.57 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.4 x 0.6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 51.76
- Image
- NGC 4706 2MASS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6139980350377576576
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-06-05
- apparent magnitude
- 9.358
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- redshift
- 0.012552
- radial velocity
- 3739
- right ascension
- 192.47572130565040
- declination
- -41.27935359243510
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 4706
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4706 is a lenticular galaxy located about 157 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on June 5, 1834. NGC 4706 is a member of the Centaurus Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1113592” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.