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NGC4569

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:36:50.0
Declination: +13:9:50
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 9.5

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: pL, bMN
Sub-type: SBab

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4569 = M 90.  See NGC 4579.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4569

17.5" (4/25/87): bright, large, very elongated 3:1 SSW-NNE, sharply concentrated, suddenly increases to a bright stellar nucleus (possibly a superimposed star), fairly even surface brightness to halo.  IC 3583 lies 6' NNW.