M89

NGC 4552

Constellation

Virgo

Shape

Elliptical

Magnitude

9.8

Size

4.2′

Position

12h 36m, +12.6°

Distance

55.1 ± 3.4 million ly

My Sky

Rise, highest and set over your place, for any night: M89

Further info

NASA: Messier 89

NED: M89

SIMBAD: M89

Wikipedia: Messier 89

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

M89, NGC 4552 — Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and M. Franx (Universiteit Leiden) and S. Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz)