Andromeda IV

Andromeda IV also briefly And IV is a dwarf irregular galaxy ( dIm ) in the constellation of Andromeda. The galaxy is about 20 million light -years away from our solar system. Andromeda IV would be with this distance thus not a member of the Local Group and is not a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy M31.

And IV was discovered by Sidney van den Bergh in 1970 with photographic plates taken with the 1.2- m Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory in the years 1970 and 1971, together with Andromeda I, Andromeda II and within a screening probable background galaxy Andromeda III.

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  • List of satellite galaxies of Andromeda
  • Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda (constellation) Declination Radial velocity Light-year arXiv Digital Object Identifier
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