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NGC4338
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:22:26.4
Declination: +29:12:29
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, lE, com
Sub-type: SB0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4338 = NGC 4310. d'A's RA is just one minute following NGC 4310, and his
description is apt. Also, he measured N4310 on three nights (his numbers 80,
164, and 380), and N4338 on only one other night (night 110). This makes it
almost certain that his RA on that one night is just one minute too large.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4338
See observing notes for NGC 4310. Here are my notes on IC 3247, often misidentified as NGC 4438 --
24" (5/30/16): at 225x; extremely faint, thin edge-on ~5:1 N-S, very low surface brightness, very slightly brighter elongated core, ~45"x9". Only visible part of the time, though pops clearly and can hold for a few seconds.