Image taken using the Open University telescope in Tenerife.
Galaxy located in the constellation of Centaurus and its distance from Earth is 123,707,852.50 light years. The diameter of NGC 4645 is 52,178.48 light years.
RA 12h 36m 21.99s Dec +25°59'
@pattyblue To use the words from the Monty Python Galaxy song...
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.