NGC 4627 explained
| NGC 4627 |
| Credit: | GALEX/NASA. |
| Constellation Name: | Canes Venatici[1] |
| Epoch: | J2000 |
| Type: | E4 pec[2] |
| Dist Ly: | 30.3 Mly |
| Z: | 542 ± 16 km/s |
| Appmag V: | 13.1 |
| Size V: | 2.6 × 1.8 |
| Names: | UGC 7860, PGC 42620 |
NGC 4627 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy lies about 30 million light years away from Earth. NGC 4627 is located 3 arcminutes northwest of the nucleus of NGC 4631, a spiral galaxy which interacts with it.[3]
Notes and References
- Book: R. W. Sinnott . The Complete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer . 1988 . Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press . 978-0-933346-51-2.
- Web site: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database . Results for NGC 4627 . 2007-04-01 .
- Neininger . N. . Dumke . M. . Intergalactic cold dust in the NGC 4631 group . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 11 May 1999 . 96 . 10 . 5360–5365 . 10.1073/pnas.96.10.5360. astro-ph/9904302 .
