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NGC 4856

GtowardsGroup SIMBAD GiG 86 papers

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Right ascension: 12h 59m 21.24s
Declination: −15° 02′ 31.3″
Galactic l, b: 305.78, 47.79
Redshift z: 0.004453
Radial velocity: 1,332 km/s
Proper motion: -0.936, -0.566 mas/yr
Angular size: 4.37′ × 1.82′

Also known as

10 identifiers

2MASX J12592127-15023186dFGS gJ125921.2-150232Gaia DR2 3524724147652187008Gaia DR3 3524724147652187008LEDA 44582NGC 4856UGCA 313[CHM2007] LDC 904 J125921.27-1502318MCG-02-33-078[NLB95] f646g002

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
MCG-02-33-080	GtowardsGroup	380.9″	—
SN 2004gm	Supernova	387.8″	15.9

Provenance

where this card came from

Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-4856 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.