UGC 4798 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Lynx. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is , which corresponds to a Hubble distance of .. The first known reference to this galaxy comes from Part 1 of the Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies, published in 1962, where it is listed as MCG +08-17-038.
Supernovae Five supernovae have been observed in UGC 4798: SN 2005mf (TypeIc, mag. 17.4) was discovered by the THCA Supernova Survey on 25 December 2005. SN 2013V (TypeIa, mag. 17.8) was discovered by T. Crowley, Jack Newton, and Tim Puckett on 6 January 2013. PSN J09084248+4448132 (Type Ia, mag. 15.8) was discovered by the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey and Stan Howerton on 26 October 2014. SN 2019cad (Type Ic, mag. 18.75) was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 17 March 2019. This supernova was double-peaked and resembled SN 2005bf. SN 2025ane (TypeII, mag. 18.2563) was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 31 January 2025.
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