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NGC4628

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:42:25.3
Declination: -6:58:15
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, S, E, gbM
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4628

17.5" (5/22/93): fairly faint, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE, 1.2'x0.4', even concentration down to a small bright core.  Two mag 11 stars are just 1.5' N and 1.5' NE and two mag 10 stars are in the field 7' E and 7' ESE.  This galaxy is the slightly brighter of a pair of very similar very elongated systems with NGC 4626 4.4' S.