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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