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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Canes Venatici
Right ascension
12 15 50.900
Declination
+47 ° 05 ′ 30.44 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1023 km/s
Distance
61.6 Mly (18.88 Mpc )
Type
Sb
Apparent size v
5.012′ × 1.479′

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Wikidata facts

Distance from Earth
19.8
Image
NGC 4217 GALEX WikiSky.jpg
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catalog code
[SLK2004] 676
Commons category
NGC 4217
time of discovery or invention
1788-00-00
apparent magnitude
10.786
galaxy morphological type
Sab
right ascension
183.9620833
declination
47.0917889
radial velocity
1023
redshift
0.003419
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NGC 4217 is an edge-on spiral galaxy which lies approximately 60 million light-years (18 million parsecs) away in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It is a possible companion galaxy to Messier 106 (NGC 4258).

One supernova, SN 2022myz (type I, mag. 19), was discovered in NGC 4217 on 19 June 2022.

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