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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 4697 is referenced by 757 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Virgo, NGC 4624 and list of NGC objects (4001–5000).
Vinony files it under Caldwell objects, Elliptical galaxies and NGC objects.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 48 35.9
- Declination
- −05 ° 48 ′ 03 ″
- Redshift
- 1241 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- ~ 38 Mly / ~ 50 Mly
- Type
- E6
- Apparent size v
- 4.4 ′ × 2.8 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 16.5
- Image
- NGC 4697 HST 10003 R850 B475.png
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3676881374226407296
- Commons category
- NGC 4697
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-24
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.453
- radial velocity
- 1210
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- right ascension
- 192.14958032962480
- declination
- -5.80069379878760
- redshift
- 0.004123
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4697 (also known as Caldwell 52) is an elliptical galaxy some 40 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the NGC 4697 Group, a group of galaxies also containing NGC 4731 and several generally much smaller galaxies. This group is about 55 million light-years away; it is one of the many Virgo II Groups, which form a southern extension of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.
The distance to NGC 4697 is not known with high precision: measurements vary from 28 to 76 million light-years. According to the NASA Extra-galactic Database, the average is about 38 million light-years; according to SIMBAD, about 50 million light-years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4697” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.