NGC 4680

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Virgo}}

{{Sky|12|46|54.7221|-|11|38|12.899}}

{{Infobox galaxy

|name=NGC 4680

|image=NGC4680 - HST - Potw2123a.jpg

|caption=NGC 4680 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

|ra={{RA|12|46|54.7221}}

|dec={{DEC|-11|38|12.899}}{{r|ned}}

|appmag_v=12,8 mag

|appmag_b=13,7 mag

|h_radial_v=(2492 ± 9) km/s

| size_v = 1.4{{prime}} × 1.2{{prime}}

| type = Pec {{cite web

| title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

| work=Results for NGC 4680

| url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=ngc+4680

| access-date=2024-03-26 }}

| z = 0.008312 ± 0.000030

| size = ~{{convert|15.56|kpc|ly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}} (estimated){{r|ned}}

| names = {{odlist | MCG= -02-33-007 | PGC= 43118 | IRAS= 12443-1121 }}

}}

NGC 4680 is a spiral/lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo.{{Cite web |last=information@eso.org |title=A Spiral Amongst Friends |url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw2123a/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.spacetelescope.org |language=en}} It is estimated to be 106 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 45,000 ly.{{Cite web |title=NGC 4680 – Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus {{!}} TheSkyLive.com |url=https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ngc4680-object |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=theskylive.com}} In the same area of the sky there are, among other things: the galaxies NGC 4700 and NGC 4708.{{cn|date=April 2024}} NGC 4680 was discovered on May 27, 1835, by John Herschel using an 18-inch reflecting telescope, who described it as "eF, S, has one or two small stars entangled in it".{{Cite web |title=New General Catalog Objects: NGC 4650–4699 |url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc46a.htm#4680 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=cseligman.com}}

One supernova has been observed in NGC 4680. SN 1997bp (type Ia, mag. 13.8) was discovered by Robert Evans on 6 April 1997.{{cite journal |last1=Marples |first1=P. |last2=Evans |first2=R. |last3=Phillips |first3=M. |last4=Schlegel |first4=D. J. |last5=Filippenko |first5=A. V. |last6=Leonard |first6=D. C. |last7=Wang |first7=L. |last8=Wheeler |first8=J. C. |last9=Garnavich |first9=P. |last10=Challis |first10=P. |last11=Kirshner |first11=R. |last12=Grogin |first12=N. |title=Supernova 1997bp in NGC 4680 |journal=International Astronomical Union Circular |date=1 April 1997 |volume=6613 |pages=1 |url=http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/06600/06613.html#Item1 |issn=0081-0304}}{{cite web | website=Transient Name Server | title=SN{{nbsp}}1997bp | url=https://www.wis-tns.org/object/1997bp | publisher = IAU | access-date=6 December 2024}}