NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way.

2025年2月12日 · NGC 4244，也称为 科德韦尔26，是位于 猎犬座 并以侧面朝向我们的一个 螺旋星系，也是 科德韦尔天体 之一。 它属于 M94星系群 (猎犬座I星系群)，相对来说很靠近 本星系群 ——我们 银河系 所属的星系群。 NGC 4244的光度在+10.2至+10.6等，天体座标位置是赤经RA 12 h 17.5 m，赤纬+37° 49′，接近肉眼能看见的G-型恒星 常陈四 、 棒涡星系 NGC 4151 、和 不规则星系 NGC 4214。 这个星系的距离大约为1300万光年 [1] /14 million [2]，红移+243/493公里/ …

2024年8月23日 · The Silver Needle was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1787 and is also cataloged as NGC 4244. It is best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere during spring (autumn in the Southern Hemisphere), away from city lights, though even then it will be difficult to spot in small telescopes.

NGC 4244，也稱為 科德韋爾26，是位於 獵犬座 並以側面朝向我們的一個 螺旋星系，也是 科德韋爾天體 之一。 它属于 M94星系群 (猎犬座I星系群)，相對來說很靠近 本星系群 ——我們 銀河 …

2020年3月23日 · This is NGC 4244, the Silver Needle Galaxy, not to be confused with the Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565). It lies about 14 million light years from us, in Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), and is part of a larger group known as the M94 group, after its brightest member. Tip to tip, NGC 4244 covers it a little more than half the Moon’s diameter.

3 天之前 · NGC 4244 lacks a central bulge, although deep imaging shows a flattened sphere of young stars inside a larger sphere of old stars in the central 32 LY. I did not find NGC 4244 in the Flat Galaxy catalogues, but it should be there. Another oddity is the presence of two irregular HII regions at either tip of the halo, along with a warping at the ...

2025年1月2日 · NGC 4244，又名Caldwell 26 ，是猎犬座的一个侧向松散螺旋星系，是M94 星系群或猎犬座 I 星系群的一部分，该星系群距离包含银河系的本星系群相对较近。 在天空中，它位于肉眼可见的黄色恒星猎犬座 β附近，但也位于棒旋星系NGC 4151和不规则星系NGC 4214附近。

2015年3月12日 · NGC 4244’s disk appears almost edge-on, tilting only 5° to our line of sight. Through the eyepiece, this galaxy has a relatively even illumination — the core appears only slightly brighter than...

The galaxy NGC 4244 is located in the constellation Canes Venatici. The best time to view this circumpolar constellation is January to December, when it is highest at night.

2019年5月2日 · I took the opportunity to image the "other" Needle Galaxy, the Silver Needle (NGC 4244). It is an Edge-on spiral galaxy located ~14 million light years away from us in the constellation of Canes Venatici.