NGC 4212

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices}} {{Infobox Galaxy | name = [[New General Catalogue|NGC]] 4212 | image = [[File:SDSS NGC 4212.jpg|250px]] | caption = [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey|SDSS]] image of NGC 4212. | epoch = [[J2000]] | type = SAc, [[LINER]]<ref name="ned">{{cite web | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database | work=Results for NGC 4212 | url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | access-date=2018-07-28}}</ref> | ra = {{RA|12|15|39.3}}<ref name="ned" /> | dec = {{DEC|13|54|05}}<ref name="ned" /> | dist_ly = {{convert|16.4|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}}<ref name="ned"/> | group_cluster = [[Virgo Cluster]] | h_radial_v = -81 km/s<ref name="ned" /> | z = -0.000270<br> (minus sign <br> indicates '''[[blueshift]]''')<ref name="ned" /> | appmag_v = 11.83<ref name="ned" /> | size_v = 3.2 x 1.9<ref name="ned" /> | constellation name = [[Coma Berenices (constellation)|Coma Berenices]] | names = NGC 4208, CGCG 69-110, IRAS 12130+1411, MCG 2-31-70, PGC 39224, UGC 7275, VCC 157<ref name="ned" /> |size=~{{convert|17|kpc|ly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}} (estimated)<ref name="ned" /> }} '''NGC 4212''' is a [[Flocculent spiral galaxy|flocculent]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kuno|first1=Nario|last2=Sato|first2=Naoko|last3=Nakanishi|first3=Hiroyuki|last4=Hirota|first4=Akihiko|last5=Tosaki|first5=Tomoka|last6=Shioya|first6=Yasuhiro|last7=Sorai|first7=Kazuo|last8=Nakai|first8=Naomasa|last9=Nishiyama|first9=Kota|date=2007-02-25|title=Nobeyama CO Atlas of Nearby Spiral Galaxies: Distribution of Molecular Gas in Barred and Nonbarred Spiral Galaxies|journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan|language=en|volume=59|issue=1|pages=117–166|doi=10.1093/pasj/59.1.117|issn=0004-6264|arxiv=0705.2678|bibcode=2007PASJ...59..117K|s2cid=14076941}}</ref> [[spiral galaxy]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+4212&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES|title=Your NED Search Results|website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu|access-date=2018-08-12}}</ref> with [[Low-ionization nuclear emission-line region|LINER]] activity<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Decarli|first1=R.|last2=Gavazzi|first2=G.|last3=Arosio|first3=I.|last4=Cortese|first4=L.|last5=Boselli|first5=A.|last6=Bonfanti|first6=C.|last7=Colpi|first7=M.|date=2007-10-11|title=The census of nuclear activity of late-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|language=en|volume=381|issue=1|pages=136–150|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12208.x|doi-access=free |issn=0035-8711|arxiv=0707.0999|bibcode=2007MNRAS.381..136D|s2cid=14937210}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> located about 53 million [[light-year]]s away<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nDistance?name=NGC+4208|title=NED Query Results for NGC 4208|website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-12}}</ref> in the constellation [[Coma Berenices]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC4212|title=Revised NGC Data for NGC 4212|website=spider.seds.org|access-date=2018-08-12}}</ref> The galaxy was discovered by astronomer [[William Herschel]] on April 8, 1784, and was listed in the [[New General Catalogue|NGC]] catalog as NGC 4208. He then observed the same galaxy and listed it as NGC 4212.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc42.htm#4208|title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 4200 - 4249|website=cseligman.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-28}}</ref> Astronomer [[John Louis Emil Dreyer]] later concluded that NGC 4208 was identical to NGC 4212.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyWjVWYWoO8C&pg=PA640|title=Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters: From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue|last=Steinicke|first=Wolfgang|date=2010-08-19|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49010-8|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> NGC 4212 is a member of the [[Virgo Cluster]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Binggeli|first1=B.|last2=Sandage|first2=A.|last3=Tammann|first3=G. A.|date=September 1985|title=Studies of the Virgo Cluster. II - A catalog of 2096 galaxies in the Virgo Cluster area. V - Luminosity functions of Virgo Cluster galaxies|journal=The Astronomical Journal|language=en|volume=90|pages=1681|doi=10.1086/113874|issn=0004-6256|bibcode=1985AJ.....90.1681B}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=C.|first=Kraan-Korteweg, R.|date=March 1982|title=A complete sample of Virgo cluster galaxies|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series|language=en|volume=47|pages=505|issn=0365-0138|bibcode=1982A&AS...47..505K}}</ref><ref name="nbg">{{cite book | author=R. B. Tully | date=1988 | title=Nearby Galaxies Catalog | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | location=Cambridge | isbn=978-0-521-35299-4}}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of NGC objects (4001–5000)]] * [[NGC 4414]] * [[NGC 4051]] - similar looking galaxy

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{{DEFAULTSORT:NGC 4212}} [[Category:NGC objects|4212]] [[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|39224]] [[Category:Coma Berenices]] [[Category:Virgo Cluster]] [[Category:Astronomical objects discovered in 1784]] [[Category:Flocculent spiral galaxies]] [[Category:UGC objects|7275]] [[Category:LINER galaxies]]