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NGC4006

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:58:5.9
Declination: -2:7:13
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1828
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: F, S, R, bM, * 11 nf
Sub-type: E3

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4006 is not IC 2983, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4006

17.5" (5/11/02): fairly faint, small, slightly elongated SSW-NNE, 0.7'x0.5', very small brighter core, faint stellar nucleus with direct vision.  Near the middle of a 13' N-S string of stars concave outwards towards the east.  A mag 12 star lies 1.6' NE.  Forms a pair with CGCG 013-020 7' ESE.  This galaxy appeared faint, small, slightly elongated, 0.5'x0.4'.