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NGC4550

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:35:30.6
Declination: +12:13:15
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.7

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, vlE, sp of 2
Sub-type: SB0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4550

17.5" (4/25/87): fairly bright, fairly small, pretty edge-on N-S, small bright core, faint stellar nucleus.  A mag 12 star lies 2.9' SE.  Forms a pair with NGC 4551 3.2' NNE.  Located 20' S of M89.