About NGC 4192
NGC 4192 is an epic galaxy. It sits in the constellation Com and shines at apparent magnitude 10.84.
A barred spiral — a straight bar of stars driving right through the nucleus, feeding gas inwards. Our own Milky Way is one of these.
Epic galaxy 51 EP
NGC 4192
RA 183.4512° · Dec 14.9003° · openngc
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Score breakdown
· 5 badgesEpic 78 pts → Anomaly
- Galaxy +14
- Messier object +12
- Barred spiral galaxy +10
- Coming towards us +10
- Big on the sky +5
Total score 51
27 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Galaxy · +14
- Messier object · +12
- Barred spiral galaxy · +10
- Big on the sky · +5
- Coming towards us · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Barred spiral. A barred spiral — a straight bar of stars driving right through the nucleus, feeding gas inwards. Our own Milky Way is one of these.
Hard to believe
- Messier object. One of the 110 showpieces of the Messier list — catalogued as M98.
What it actually is
- What it actually is. A galaxy: a gravitationally bound city of stars, gas and dark matter, turning so slowly that a single rotation takes hundreds of millions of years.
Sense of scale
- Scale. Home to hundreds of billions of stars — a universe unto itself, and every one of those points of light could have planets.
Find it in the sky
- How to spot it. At magnitude 10.8 you'll want a small backyard telescope, over in Coma Berenices.
- Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
- Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around March — that's when to go looking.
Its true colour
- Its true colour. Its colour is a census: blue where gas is still collapsing into hot young stars, yellow-red in the old, settled core.
Properties
- constellation
- Com
- dso type
- G
- hubble
- SABb
- mag
- 10.84
- messier
- yes
- messier number
- 098
- name
- NGC 4192
- radial velocity kms
- -120
- size arcmin
- 11.04
- surface brightness
- 23.89
How to see it
Look for NGC 4192 in the constellation Com. At apparent magnitude 10.84, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.
Like any astronomical target, NGC 4192 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why NGC 4192 is an epic galaxy
NGC 4192 scores 51 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 27 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Galaxy, Messier object, Barred spiral galaxy, Big on the sky and Coming towards us — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.