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NGC4018

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:58:40.6
Declination: +25:19:2
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Dreyer
Year of discovery: 1878
Discovery aperture: 72.0

Observational

Summary description: mE np sf, 2 st s
Sub-type: Sab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4018

24" (3/22/14): fairly faint to moderately bright, moderately large, very elongated 3:1 NNW-SSE, 1.2'x0.4', broad weak concentration.  NGC 4022 lies 7' SE.

17.5" (3/19/88): faint, fairly small, edge-on NW-SE.  A pair of mag 13 stars at 25" separation is located 3' SSE.  Member of the NGC 4007 group with NGC 4022 7' SE.