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NGC4222
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:16:22.6
Declination: +13:18:25
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS, R
Sub-type: Scd
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4222 is not IC 3087, which see.
It is, however, a late-type spiral seen virtually edge-on, just as NGC 4217
is. Thus, its position is difficult to determine. The one I have finally
adopted is from the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog, and is centered on an
IR-bright knot just northeast of the apparent center of the nearly
non-existent bulge.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4222
17.5" (1/23/88): faint, moderately large, very thin edge-on SW-NE. A mag 15 star is at the east end. Located 5' W of mag 8.7 SAO 100016. This is the third of three edge-ons with NGC 4206 23' SW and NGC 4216 12' SW in Virgo.