NGC 4203 [SEP] constellation
NGC 4203
NGC 4203 is the "New General Catalogue" identifier for a lenticular galaxy in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered on March 20, 1787 by English astronomer William Herschel, and is situated 5.5° to the northwest of the 4th magnitude star Gamma Comae Berenices and can be viewed with a small telescope. The morphological classification of NGC 4203 is SAB0−, indicating that it has a lenticular form with tightly wound spiral arms and a weak bar structure at the nucleus.
This galaxy has a fairly
, NGC 4173, NGC 4203, NGC 4245, NGC 4251, NGC 4274, NGC 4283, NGC 4310, NGC 4314, NGC 4359, NGC 4414, NGC 4509, and NGC 4525. Another survey placed NGC 4278 in the same group with NGC 4631, NGC 4656, NGC 4559, NGC 4448, and NGC 4414. It is part of the Coma I Group which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.
NGC 4283 lies 3.5 arcminutes to the northeast and NGC 4286 9 arcminutes northeast of NGC 4278 in the