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NGC4064

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 12:4:11.0
Declination: +18:26:36
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 11.5

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1861
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: B, E, gbM
Sub-type: SBa

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4064 17.5" (4/6/91): moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 3'x1.5', large bright core but no nucleus, sharper light cut-off on the SW side due to dust. Two mag 14 stars are 1.6' SSW and 2.7' E of center.