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NGC4261
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:19:23.1
Declination: +5:49:28
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.4
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: pB, pS, R, gbM
Sub-type: E2
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4261
24" (4/28/14): very bright, very large, oval 4:3 NNW-SSE, 2.4'x1.8'. Sharply concentrated with a large, intensely bright core that brightens to a quasi-stellar nucleus. A mag 15 star is near the edge of the halo on the ENE side. VCC 344 is 1.8' S, just outside the halo, and was logged as "faint, very small, round, 12" diameter, high surface brightness." Forms a pair with NGC 4264 3.3' NE and brightest of 30 galaxies viewed within 35'!
17.5" (3/24/90): bright, fairly large, slightly elongated NW-SE, very bright core with stellar nucleus embedded. Brightest in a large group of 13 NGC galaxies. In a field with NGC 4264 3.4' ENE, NGC 4257 7' SSW and CGCG 042-014 5' N. NGC 4260 lies 17' N.