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NGC4192

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:13:47.8
Declination: +14:53:58
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 10.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Mechain
Year of discovery: 1781
Discovery aperture: 3.0

Observational

Summary description: B, vL, vmE 152°, vsvmbM
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4192 = M 98.  See NGC 4186, NGC 4548, and NGC 4579.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4192

17.5" (5/10/86): bright, very large, very elongated 4:1 NNW-SSE, 6'x1.5', small bright core, stellar nucleus.  A faint knot is highly suspected near the south tip.  NGC 4186 lies 11' SSE.  Located 32' W of 6 Comae Berenices (V = 5.1). 

13" (4/29/84): bright, large, very elongated, small bright nucleus, impressive.