Right ascension 12 48 35.9 Redshift 1241 ± 1 km/s Apparent magnitude (V) 10.97 Magnitude 9.2 | Declination −05° 48′ 03″ Distance ~ 38 Mly / ~ 50 Mly Type E6 | |
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Similar NGC 5823, NGC 6885, NGC 6124, NGC 2775, NGC 2506 | ||
Ngc 4697 elliptical galaxy animation
NGC 4697 (also known as Caldwell 52) is an elliptical galaxy some 40 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the NGC 4697 Group, a group of galaxies also containing NGC 4731 and several generally much smaller galaxies This group is about 55 million light-years away; it is one of the many Virgo II Groups, which form a southern extension of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.
The distance to NGC 4697 is not known with high precision: measurements vary from 28 to 76 million light-years. According to the NASA Extra-galactic Database, the average is about 38 million light-years; according to SIMBAD, about 50 million light-years.
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