NGC4419 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 8 April 1784.
NGC4419 is a LINER galaxy, i.e. a galaxy whose nucleus has an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weakly ionized atoms.
Distance NGC 4419 has a velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background of , which is too small to be used to estimate its distance. Instead, 22 non-redshift measurements are used to give a mean distance of .
Supernovae Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 4419: SN1984A (TypeIa, mag. 16) was discovered by Givi N. Kimeridze on 4 January 1984, and independently by Leonida Rosino on 7 January 1984. SN2012cc (TypeII, mag. 18.2) was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on 29 April 2012.
See also List of NGC objects (4001–5000)
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