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NGC4179

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:12:52.1
Declination: +1:17:59
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, pS, pmE 135° ±, bMN
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4179, discovered by WH, was also seen by David Todd during his search for 
"the trans-Neptunian planet" in 1877.  It is Todd's number (15).  See NGC 3604
for more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4179

17.5" (3/24/90): bright, fairly small, very distinctive edge-on system oriented NW-SE, very bright core, sharp light cut-off along the SW flank.  A string of mag 11 stars trail off to the NE.