NGC 4242
NGC 4242
NGC 4242 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is receding from us at about 661 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
11.0
apparent magnitude
661 km/s
receding (RC3)
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.