PGC 44691

{{Short description|Spiral galaxy in constellation Coma Berenices}} {{Infobox Galaxy | name = [[Principal Galaxies Catalogue|PGC]] 44691 | image = PGC 44691 cropped.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = The spiral galaxy PGC 44691. | epoch = [[J2000]] | type =Sa<ref name="ned">{{cite web | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database | work=Results for PGC 44691 | url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref> | ra = {{RA|13|00|03.0}}<ref name="ned" /> | dec = {{DEC|28|14|25}}<ref name="ned" /> | dist_ly = 352,080,000 [[Light-year|ly]] | z = 0.025631/7684 km/s<ref name="ned" /> | group_cluster = [[Coma Cluster]] | appmag_v = 16.7 | constellation name = [[Coma Berenices (constellation)|Coma Berenices]] | size_v = 0.43 x 0.32<ref name="ned" /> | names =2MASX J13000297+2814253<ref name="ned" /> |size=~50,560 ly (estimated)<ref name="ned" /> }} '''PGC 44691''' is a [[spiral galaxy]] located about 350 million [[light-year]]s away<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=PGC+44691&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=2017-09-24}}</ref> in the [[constellation]] [[Coma Berenices (constellation)|Coma Berenices]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9507a/|title=NGC 4881|last=|website=www.spacetelescope.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref> It belongs to a galaxy cluster known as the [[Coma Cluster]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://hubblesite.org/image/268/news_release/1995-07|title=HubbleSite: Image - Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4881|website=hubblesite.org|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/NEDatt?objname=2MASX+J13000297+2814253|title=Detailed Object Classifications|website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref> In 1994, the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] observed PGC 44691 and the nearby [[elliptical galaxy]] [[NGC 4881]] to infer the distance to the [[Coma Cluster]].<ref name=":0" /> [[File:NGC4881 HST 1995-07.jpg|thumb|Hubble image of the galaxies [[NGC 4881]] (center) and PGC 44691 (right). |left]]

== See also == * [[NGC 4921]] Another spiral galaxy in the Coma Cluster

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{{DEFAULTSORT:PGC 44691}} [[Category:Spiral galaxies]] [[Category:Coma Berenices]] [[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|44691]] [[Category:Coma Cluster]]