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NGC4526

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:34:2.8
Declination: +7:41:56
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 9.3

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vB, vL, mE 120° ±, psmbM, bet 2 st 7 m
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4526 is probably also NGC 4560 (which see), and figures peripherally in 
the identification of M 91; see NGC 4579 for that.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4526

17.5" (4/18/87): very bright, fairly large, very elongated WNW-ESE, bright core, strong stellar nucleus.  A mag 12.5 star is 1.3' S of center.  Located midway between mag 6.9 SAO 119466 7.6' W and mag 6.7 SAO 119479 7.2' ENE.  Supernova 1994C observed at 12th magnitude on 3/12/94 five days after discovery.