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NGC4417

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:26:50.4
Declination: +9:35:4
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: F, pL, E, lbp
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4417 is not NGC 4437 = NGC 4517.  A typo in Dorothy Carlson's list of NGC
corrections of 1940 is responsible for the confusion in some mid-20th century
catalogues.  See NGC 4437 for more.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4417

17.5" (4/18/87): bright, moderately large, elongated lens-shape SW-NE, bright bulging core containing a bright stellar nucleus.  NGC 4424 lies 11' SSE.