NGC 4424 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3366 · NGC 4424 · PGC 213990 · PGC 213994 · PGC 40722 · PGC 40867

NGC 4424

This object is an edge-on spiral galaxy located 50 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of +9 degrees. This galaxy spans 3 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 50,000 light years.

This galaxy has a very active core region. Numerous bright star clusters are seen, creating a chain-of-beads visual effect in the bar. Dark dust clouds, not a lane, are seen sprinkled throughout. Star streams extend around and above the galaxy. I would love to see this galaxy face-on.

The galaxy has obviously been disturbed, and the galaxy immediately below (PGC 213994) looks suspicious. I couldn’t find a distance measurement for it, but I suspect that it is a spiral galaxy located too far away to be the culprit. A detailed analysis in the 2006 paper, “The Nature of the Peculiar Virgo Cluster Galaxies NGC 4064 and NGC 4424”, by Cortes, Kenney and Hardy, suggests that the disturbed pattern of NGC 4424 is the result of a recent galaxy merger between an intermediate size spiral galaxy and a small elliptical galaxy.

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RA (center)	12h27m11s.370
RA (top/left)	12h27m52s.857
RA (top/right)	12h26m28s.565
RA (bottom/right)	12h26m29s.909
RA (bottom/left)	12h27m54s.148

Dec (center)	+09°25′20″.18
Dec (top/left)	+09°33′13″.25
Dec (top/right)	+09°32′46″.68
Dec (bottom/right)	+09°17′26″.86
Dec (bottom/left)	+09°17′53″.35

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