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NGC4068

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.