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NGC4296

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 12:21:28.4
Declination: +6:39:13
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1784
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational


Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 4296. See NGC 4297.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4296 17.5" (3/24/90): fairly faint, very small, bright core, very faint elongated halo N-S mostly visible to the south of the core. Forms a pair with NGC 4297 1.1' NNW.