NGC 4098

NGC 4098 is an interacting^[2] pair of spiral galaxies^[2][3] located 330 million light-years away^[3] in the constellation Coma Berenices.^[4] NGC 4098 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 26, 1785. It was then rediscovered by Hershel on December 27, 1786 was listed as NGC 4099.^[5] NGC 4098 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

NGC 4098
SDSS image of NGC 4098.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Coma Berenices
Right ascension	12h 06m 03.9s[1]
Declination	20° 36′ 22″[1]
Redshift	0.024337[1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	7296 km/s[1]
Distance	330 Mly (101 Mpc)[1]
Group or cluster	NGC 4065 Group
Apparent magnitude (V)	14.5[1]
Characteristics
Type	S?[1]
Size	~105,000 ly (32.3 kpc) (estimated)[1]
Apparent size (V)	0.8 x 0.4[1]
Other designations
NGC 4099, UGC 07091, PGC 038365, MCG +04-29-023, VV 061[1]

NGC 4098 is interacting with the galaxy pair VV 62.^[2]

A candidate supernova of an unknown type, which was designated as SNhunt287 (PSN J12060084+2036183), was discovered in NGC 4098 on April 25, 2015.^[11][12][13]