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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 4976 is referenced by 641 other articles, and connects out to Alpha Centauri, NGC 4624 and epoch.
It is catalogued under topics including Centaurus, Elliptical galaxies and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 08 37.5
- Declination
- −49 ° 30 ′ 23 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1453 ± 24 km/ s
- Distance
- 41 ± 17 M ly , (12.5 ± 5.3 M pc )
- Type
- E4 pec
- Apparent size v
- 5.6 ′ × 3.0 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 19.23
- Image
- NGC 4976 2MASS.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 45562
- Commons category
- NGC 4976
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-03-31
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 6.847
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- redshift
- 0.004710
- right ascension
- 197.1563583
- declination
- -49.5064083
- radial velocity
- 1409
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4976 is a peculiar elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It was detected with a 5" telescope working at 20x magnification by comet hunter Jack Bennett.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4976” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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