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M99

St. Catherine's Wheel · NGC 4254

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Shape
Spiral
Magnitude
9.8
Size
5.4′
Position
12h 19m, +14.4°
Distance
48.5 ± 6.0 million ly

My Sky

Rise, highest and set over your place, for any night: M99

Further info

NASA: Messier 99

NED: M99

SIMBAD: M99

Wikipedia: Messier 99

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

M99, NGC 4254
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Matej Novak