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NGC4206

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:15:16.7
Declination: +13:1:22
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, vmE
Sub-type: Sbc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4206 = IC 3064.  See IC 3050.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4206

17.5" (1/23/88): fairly faint, edge-on 6:1 exactly N-S, 4'x0.7', fairly large, weak concentration.  A mag 12 star lies 2.9' SE of center.  NGC 4216 lies 10' NE and NGC 4222 is 23' NE.  First of three edge-ons in a low power field!