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NGC4359

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:24:11.4
Declination: +31:31:17
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, pmE 90°, vlbM
Sub-type: SBc

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4359.  This galaxy is nearly edgewise and shows no obvious nucleus.  There
is a knot at the northwestern end of the central "bar" that several of the
automated surveys picked up, but the center of the "bar" is best represented
by one of the 2MASS PSC positions.  This is the one I finally chose for the
galaxy.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4359

17.5" (4/25/98): very faint, elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, appears as large as 3'x1' at times, low surface brightness with weak central brightening, fades at tips.  Located 34' NW of NGC 4414. Transparency poor.