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NGC4185

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:13:22.2
Declination: +28:30:37
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: cF, L, R, gbM
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4185 may also be NGC 4209 (which see) -- but is probably not.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4185

18" (4/5/03): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 4:3 ~N-S, 1.5'x1.1', broad concentration.  Forms the southern vertex of a triangle with mag 7.7 SAO 82189 8.5' NW and a mag 11.5 star 10' NE.  NGC 4196 lies 16' ESE.