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NGC4259
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:19:22.1
Declination: +5:22:37
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.6
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1827
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: F, pS, R
Sub-type: S0
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4259
24" (4/28/14): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated nearly 5:2 NW-SE, 28"x12", fairly high surface brightness. A mag 15 star is off the NE flank, 0.4' from center. A number of galaxies are in the field to the east, including IC 3513 3.9' ENE, NGC 4268 8.4' SE, NGC 4270 8.6' NE and NGC 4273/4277 pair 9' ESE.
17.5" (3/28/87): fairly faint, small, almost round, bright core. A mag 15 star is at the NE edge 0.5' from center. First of seven in the NGC 4273 group and forms a pair with IC 3153 3' ENE.