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NGC4287
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:20:48.4
Declination: +5:38:26
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.3
Historic Information
Discoverer: Marth
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 48.0
Observational
Summary description: pF
Sub-type: Sb
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4287
24" (4/28/14): faint to fairly faint, fairly small, edge-on 4:1 or 5:1 WSW-ENE, 35"x8", fairly low even surface brightness. A mag 14.3 star is attached on the northwest side and detracts from viewing. NGC 4282 lies 7' SW and IC 782 is 14' NE (the trio is collinear). In addition, NGC 4266 and 4270 are both ~18' SW.
17.5" (3/24/90): extremely faint, very small, slightly elongated E-W, low surface brightness. A mag 14.5 star on the west edge slightly hampers the view. NGC 4282 lies 6' SW.