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NGC4013
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 11:58:31.3
Declination: +43:56:50
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 11.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: B, cL, mE 62°, vsvmbM * 10
Sub-type: Sb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4013 is another edgewise galaxy, this one a somewhat earlier spiral than
NGC 4010 (which see). Finding the position for this one is somewhat
complicated by the star superposed almost exactly on the dust lane just
northeast of the center of the galaxy.
For this galaxy, the SDSS position is a bit south of the center of the galaxy,
so I've taken instead the mean of six 2MASS point sources clustered around the
approximate center of the bulge. Again, the position is more uncertain than
usual.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4013
17.5" (3/8/97): moderately bright, fairly large edge-on 5:1 WSW-ENE, 3.5'x0.7'. A mag 12 star is superimposed very close to the actual center masquerading as a bright stellar nucleus (similar to M108). The galaxy bulges towards center but is only weakly concentrated, fades towards tips. On the DSS the star is superimposed on a thin equatorial dust lane that was not seen.