NGC 4473 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: NGC 4473 · PGC 139909 · PGC 165197 · PGC 169386 · PGC 169419 · PGC 169431 · PGC 169437 · PGC 169439 · PGC 3096146 · PGC 41174 · PGC 41179 · PGC 41313

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NGC 4473

This object is an elliptical galaxy located 50 million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices at a declination of +13 degrees. This 10.2 magnitude galaxy with a surface brightness of 12.4 spans 5 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 80,000 light years. This galaxy is inclined about 30 degrees from edge-on.

Most ellipticals I image are fairly spherical, but this elliptical is oblong and is classified as an E5 (on a scale from the spherical E0 to the strongly flattened E7). I was hoping to find some interesting structure in this galaxy disk in the form of faint dust bands or star streams, but I didn’t find anything here.

This galaxy is less than one degree from NGC 4477 and makes a good framing pair with it for shorter focal length scopes.

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RA (center)	12h29m48s.585
RA (top/left)	12h30m27s.150
RA (top/right)	12h29m09s.214
RA (bottom/right)	12h29m10s.460
RA (bottom/left)	12h30m27s.894

Dec (center)	+13°25′45″.16
Dec (top/left)	+13°33′09″.10
Dec (top/right)	+13°32′54″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°18′20″.86
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°18′35″.56

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