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NGC4053

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:3:11.5
Declination: +19:43:45
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, vlE, alm stell
Sub-type: S

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4053

17.5" (5/11/02): faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 WNW-ESE, 0.7'x0.3'.  Brighter along the major axis and the very small core contains a stellar nucleus.  A mag 15 star is 1.6' W of center.  Located 33' SSW of NGC 4065 (brightest in a large group of NGC galaxies).