M84

NGC 4374

Constellation

Virgo

Shape

Elliptical

Magnitude

9.3

Size

5′

Position

12h 25m, +12.9°

Distance

55.8 ± 2.9 million ly

My Sky

Rise, highest and set over your place, for any night: M84

Further info

NASA: Messier 84

NED: M84

SIMBAD: M84

Wikipedia: Messier 84

Sources

Distance: NED-D (Steer 2020)

Magnitude and size: NGC 2000.0 (Sinnott 1988)

Shape: RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991)

Name: Wikipedia, List of Messier objects

M84, NGC 4374 — Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Capetti (Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino), P. Cote (National Research Council of Canada), and J. Bregman (University of Michigan); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)