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NGC4442

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 12:28:3.9
Declination: +9:48:14
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.4

Historic Information


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

Observational


Summary description: vB, pL, R, smbM
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 4442. See IC 793.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4442 17.5" (4/18/87): bright, moderately large, elongated 2:1 WSW-ENE, bright core, stellar nucleus. Two mag 14.5 star are at the east end and just south of the core 1.5' E and 0.9' SSW of center. Located in the core of the Virgo cluster with NGC 4417/NGC 4424 pair roughly 30' SW.