PGC 4560429

GALAXYGalaxy

ILLUSTRATION FROM MAJOR AXIS 0.258′ · AXIS RATIO 0.60 · POSITION ANGLE 74°

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OVERVIEW

] GALAXY

PGC 4560429 is a galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, shining at apparent magnitude 18.26 (). It is catalogued as SDSSJ 120633.49+303715 and WISExSCOS J120633.51+303714.5.

WHAT IT IS
Galaxy
HOW BIG ON THE SKY
15

Small enough that the full Moon would cover it several times over.

HOW BRIGHT (B)

Faint: it takes a large telescope.

WHERE TO LOOK
Coma Berenices

The patch of sky it sits in, as seen from Earth.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see PGC 4560429 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

TONIGHT

Say where you are, and this line says when PGC 4560429 is worth going out for.

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THROUGH AN EYEPIECE

] 150 MM TELESCOPE · 25 MM EYEPIECE
NE
FIELD 1.08°

Fainter than the largest telescope modelled here reaches. PGC 4560429 covers 15″ of sky against a of 1.08°, so at 48× it is a speck in a wide field.

48×
1.08
1.25
13.0
SIZE ON THE SKY
15
FILLS OF THE FIELD
0% of the width
APPARENT MAGNITUDE ()
18.26 · too faint for this

PGC 4560429 is not a point of light, so the limit above is the wrong one to hold it against: the same brightness spread over 15″ of sky is harder than a star of it, and goes first. Catalogued sizes are measured to a photographic contour, and the part an eye sees is usually smaller.

FIND IT ON THE SKY MAP ↗
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APPARENT PLACE

] EQUINOX J2026.7

Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.

RIGHT ASCENSION
DECLINATION
GRID TURNED SINCE
19.8
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-08-28 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for PGC 4560429, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.

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CATALOG DATA

] 6 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Apparent magnitude ()

WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES

Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.

Redshift (z)
Redshift (z, CMB frame)
Major axis
0.257783
Minor axis
0.153536
74
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • PGC PGC 4560429
  • SDSSJ SDSSJ 120633.49+303715
  • WISExSCOS WISExSCOS J120633.51+303714.5
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 3 SERVICES

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. PGC 4560429 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/pgc-4560429
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_pgc-4560429,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{PGC 4560429}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/pgc-4560429},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era).}
}

The values above were taken from GLADE+ (Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era) — VizieR terms; cite Dalya+ 2022 (2022MNRAS.514.1403D). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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