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NGC4281
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:20:21.6
Declination: +5:23:11
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1786
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: B, vL, R, pgbM
Sub-type: S0-a
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4281
24" (4/28/14): bright, fairly large, elongated 2:1 E-W, 1.8'x0.9', sharply concentrated with an intensely bright core that increases to quasi-stellar nucleus. NGC 4268, 4273 and 4277 in a 10' string to the SW and NGC 4270 and 4266 lie to the NW.
17.5" (3/28/87): fairly bright, moderately large, bright core, elongated 2:1 E-W. This galaxy is the last of 7 in a 15' circle and the brightest in the group along with NGC 4273 6.9' ESE.