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NGC 4490 · Galaxy · Canes Venatici

Cocoon Galaxy

Also known as PGC 41333 · UGC 7651

Shot with Celestron EdgeHD 8 with 0.7× reducer ×1 · Seestar S50 ×1

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Type

Galaxy

Constellation

Canes Venatici

Position (J2000)

12h 30m 36s · +41° 38′ 38″

Discovered

by William Herschel in 1788

Pictures

2

Typical integration

5.9 h

Magnitude

9.72

visual

Size

6.7′ × 1.7′

Distance

~28,000,000 ly

Best months

Feb–Apr

Catalogue data from OpenNGC by Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Distances, discoverers and common names from Wikidata, CC0.