NGC 4406
M86 · NGC 4406
NGC 4406 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At magnitude 8.9 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
8.9
apparent magnitude
-248 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.