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NGC4025

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 11:59:10.0
Declination: +37:47:32
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: eF, pL, R
Sub-type: SBc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4025

18" (3/30/05): picked up at 165x as a moderately large but very low surface brightness glow.  At 225x, it appears ~1.5' diameter with very little concentration.  The DSS images reveals a face-on irregular barred spiral with very low surface brightness arms.