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NGC4290

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:20:47.5
Declination: +58:5:33
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, L, R, gmbM
Sub-type: SBab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4290 may also be IC 3180.  See IC 3166 for the story.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4290

17.5" (5/13/88): fairly bright, moderately large, elongated WSW-ENE, bright core, faint stellar nucleus.  Forms a pair with NGC 4284 4.6' W.  A wide double star = M40 lies 15' E.  Located 15' N of 70 Ursa Majoris (V = 5.6).