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NGC4217
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:15:50.6
Declination: +47:5:24
Constellation: CVN
Visual Magnitude: 11.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1788
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pF, L, mE 45°, ** n, p of 2
Sub-type: Sb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4217 is a large, almost exactly edge-on spiral. Its nucleus is completely
obscured by the thick dark lane. Given this, one of the 2MASS positions is
the obvious one to use, so I've taken the position from the Extended Source
Catalog -- it is the closest to the mean of the 17 positions I've collected by
March 2015. This is perhaps a coincidence, but the 2MASS XSC position is
nevertheless representative of how we see the galaxy optically and in the
near-infrared. I have not yet seen a radio position of equivalent accuracy.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4217
13.1" (4/12/86): moderately bright, pretty edge-on 4:1 SW-NE. A mag 9 star is off the NE edge 2.2' from the center and a mag 11.5 star is just north of the core 0.8' from center. Located 6.2' E of mag 7.3 SAO 44092. Forms a pair with NGC 4226 7' SE.