Object of the Season (Winter 2014/15)
NGC 4449 in Canes Venatici
Irregular galaxy NGC 4449 in Canes Venatici will be announced in DSO 166, and the results will be published in DSO 168.
Please click on the image for a high resolution version taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
- Position (2000)
- 12 28 11.0 +44 05 33 (CVn)
- Visual magnitude
- 9.4 mag
- Type
- IBm
- Size
- 5.5' x 3.6'
- Distance
- 12.5 Mio. ly
- Other Designations
- I 213, h 1281, GC 3002, UGC 7592, CGCG 216-5, MCG 7-26-9, PGC 40973
Wolfgang Steinicke - Nebulae and Clusters Section Director
