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NGC4474

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:29:53.3
Declination: +14:4:7
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 11.5

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pF, R, r
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4474

17.5" (4/25/87): second brightest of three in the field with NGC 4468 6' WSWand NGC 4459 14' WSW.  Moderately bright, fairly small, very small bright core, faint stellar nucleus, elongated WSW-ENE. 

13" (5/14/83): fairly faint, small, very elongated E-W.