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NGC4451

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:28:40.5
Declination: +9:15:32
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: pB, pS, R, bM, * 13 s
Sub-type: Sb

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4451.  See IC 793.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4451

17.5" (4/18/87): fairly faint, fairly small, oval NNW-SSE, weak concentration.  A mag 13 star is 1.5' S of center.  NGC 4445 lies 12' NW.