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NGC4552

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 12:35:39.9
Declination: +12:33:22
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 9.8

Historic Information


Discoverer: Messier
Year of discovery: 1781
Discovery aperture: 3.5

Observational


Summary description: pB, pS, R, gmbM
Sub-type: E0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 4552 = M 89. See NGC 4548 and NGC 4579.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4552 17.5" (4/25/87): very bright, irregularly round, fairly small but high surface brightness with an intense, very small bright core and substellar nucleus. Forms a pair with NGC 4550/NGC 4551 pair 20' S.