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NGC4336
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:23:29.7
Declination: +19:25:37
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.5
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: vF, pL, iR, biN ?
Sub-type: SB0-a
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4336 = IC 3254, which see. Frost must have thought that IC 3254 was a new
object as he measured its position to be over 2.5 arcmin away from that for
NGC 4336. The GC/NGC position itself, from JH's two observations, is even
further. (D'Arrest's position is within a few arcsec of the modern position,
but JH did not get a copy of d'A's monograph in time to cross-check the GC
positions.)
In any case, as I explain in the story for I3254, the identity seems likely,
so I've adopted it for the main table.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4336
17.5" (5/23/98): fairly faint, elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE (PA 160¡) in the direction of a mag 10 star 3.5' SSE, 60"x45". Weak concentration to center but the surface brightness appears irregular.