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NGC4523

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:33:48.0
Declination: +15:10:6
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: Cl + neb, close to a **
Sub-type: SBm

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4523

17.5" (5/23/87): extremely faint, difficult, very diffuse, moderately large.  Located 10' S of IC 800.  Three stars are involved; a mag 12 star is 0.4' NW of center and an evenly matched mag 13.5 double star at 21" separation is 0.7' S of center.