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NGC4216

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 12:15:54.0
Declination: +13:8:52
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.0

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vB, vL, vmE 17°, sbMN
Sub-type: SBb

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 4216 has a faint companion to the north see first by Samuel Hunter with LdR's giant Parsonstown reflector in 1860. See the short story under CGCG 069-113 in the "notngc" files.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4216 18" (6/17/06): very bright, very large, extremely thin edge-on 8:1 SSW-NNE, 7'x0.9'. Sharply concentrated with a striking high surface brightness core, ~0.9'x0.3', that dominates the extensions with a mag 14 star just following the core. A dust lane appears to run along the eastern edge of the galaxy, mostly evident by a sharp light cut off along this edge. Brightest of three edge-ons in the field with NGC 4206 and NGC 4222! 17.5" (1/23/88): very bright, very large, edge-on 5:1 SSW-NNE, small very bright core. A mag 14 star is close east of the core. This is a striking galaxy and is the second of three edge-on galaxies in the same field with NGC 4206 11' SW and NGC 4222 12' NE in Coma Berenices!