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NGC4068
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Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:4:2.3
Declination: +52:35:26
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pF, S, stellar
Sub-type: Im
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4068 = IC 757, which see. Bigourdan misidentified a star as NGC 4068 on
two nights, apparently misled by the NGC description "stellar." This led him
to rediscover the galaxy and claim it as a "nova."
WH's own description "A pS star involved in nebulosity of no great extent; the
star does not seem to belong to it" matches the galaxy and its brightest
superposed star very well. I suspect that JH condensed the description while
preparing the GC.
See IC 757 for more.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4068
17.5" (5/13/88): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated SW-NE. A mag 12 star is superimposed and a mag 14 star is at the SW end 40" from the center. A string of four mag 11-13.5 stars is just NW. In a low power field with NGC 4102 24' WSW.