Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4030
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NGC 4030, Gary Imm
NGC 4030, Gary Imm

NGC 4030

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NGC 4030, Gary Imm
NGC 4030, Gary Imm

NGC 4030

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Description

This grand design spiral galaxy is located 90 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of -1 degree.  It is a magnitude 10.6 galaxy which spans 3.2 arc-minutes in our apparent view.  This corresponds to a diameter of 85,000 light years.  From our view perspective, the disk is inclined about 20 degrees from face-on.

Star clouds are seen throughout the disk.  The arms are fascinating to me, appearing discontinuous and hard to trace but overall taking on the classic shape of a grand design spiral galaxy.

The tiny edge-on spiral seen near the right edge of them mouseover is 1 billion light years away and is about the size of our Milky Way at 130,000 light years in diameter.

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