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NGC4078

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:4:47.7
Declination: +10:35:45
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, vS, R, glbM
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4078 = NGC 4107, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4078

17.5" (1/23/88): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated, bright core.  Located in a group with NGC 4083 6.6' ENE, IC 2991 6.7' NE and NGC 4082 7.4' NE.