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NGC4066
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:4:9.4
Declination: +20:20:52
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB
Sub-type: E0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4066. See NGC 4055 and NGC 4069.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4066
24" (3/22/14): moderately bright, fairly small, round, high surface brightness, strong concentration with a very bright nucleus that increases to the center. NGC 4070 is 3.7' NNE and a trio of galaxies are close southwest: NGC 4060 2.1' WSW, NGC 4069 1.7' SSW and NGC 4056? 3.4' SW.
17.5" (3/28/87): faint, small, round, strong bright core. In a tight trio with NGC 4060 2' WSW and NGC 4069 1.7' SSW. Also in the field are NGC 4065 7' S and NGC 4070 3.8' NNE.