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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 4244 is referenced by 597 other articles, and connects out to NGC 4395, NGC 4624 and NGC 4656 and NGC 4657.
It sits within the topics Caldwell objects, Canes Venatici and M94 Group.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 12 17 29.9
- Declination
- +37 ° 48 ′ 27 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- +244 km/s
- Distance
- 14.1 Mly (4.31 Mpc )
- Type
- Sc
- Apparent size v
- 17.0 ′ . × 2.2 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astrophysical X-ray source
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 4.5
- Image
- NGC 4244 Sylvain Duguay.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- radial velocity
- 244
- Commons category
- NGC 4244
- catalog code
- Caldwell 26
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-03-17
- apparent magnitude
- 11.470
- declination
- 37.8071111
- right ascension
- 184.3735792
- redshift
- 0.000815
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way. In the sky, it is located near the yellow naked-eye star, Beta Canum Venaticorum, but also near the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4151 and irregular galaxy NGC 4214.
With an apparent V-band magnitude of 10.18, NGC 4244 lies approximately 4.3 megaparsecs (14 million light years) away. A nuclear star cluster and halo is located near the centre of this galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4244” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.