NGC 4462 — SBab in Corvus
SBab in Corvus, 3.6 arcminutes across, its light 86 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 4462
What you are looking at
NGC 4462 is an early-type spiral: a large, bright central bulge wrapped in smooth, tightly wound arms. A bar of stars runs straight across its centre, as one does across the centre of the Milky Way. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 76° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 90,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 1998bn. It is cited in 86 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 13 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
What a telescope records of NGC 4462 is light that left it about 86 million years ago; on Earth, dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,798 km/s (4.0 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 4462 lies in Corvus. It is best placed on spring evenings: around 9:30 pm in May it stands about 27° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 320 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 41150 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | SBab |
| Angular diameter | 3.60′ |
| Right ascension | 12h29m21.1s |
| Declination | -23°09′59.7″ |
| Constellation | Corvus |
| Inclination | 76.0° |
| Light travel time | 86 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 3.6 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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