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NGC4257
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:19:6.5
Declination: +5:43:34
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.0
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1862
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, pS, R, * 18 s 2'
Sub-type: Sab
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4257
24" (4/28/14): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated nearly 3:1 WSW-ENE, 32"x12", pretty smooth surface brightness. Two mag 14/15 stars 1.2' S and 1.8' S are collinear with the galaxy. Located 7' SW of NGC 4261 and 10' SW of NGC 4264 in a field with numerous NGCs.
17.5" (3/24/90): very faint, small, edge-on WSW-ENE, low even surface brightness. Located in a large group with NGC 4261 7' NNE.