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NGC4146

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:10:18.2
Declination: +26:25:52
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, pS
Sub-type: SBab

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4146

17.5" (5/4/02): fairly faint, fairly small, round, 0.8' diameter.  Weak concentration in halo but direct vision revealed a very small brighter core of ~10" (this is a Seyfert galaxy).  Located 22' ESE of mag 7.1 SAO 82152.