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NGC4564

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:36:26.9
Declination: +11:26:23
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 11.1

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, lE, psbM
Sub-type: E6

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4564

17.5" (4/25/87): fairly bright, fairly small, elongated SW-NE, sharp concentration; increases suddenly to a small bright core with a stellar nucleus, fainter extensions.  The NGC 4567/NGC 4568 pair lies 11'S at the edge of the 220x field.

13.1" (5/14/83): moderately bright, small, edge-on streak, fairly high surface brightness.