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NGC4649

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:43:39.8
Declination: +11:33:11
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 8.8

Historic Information

Discoverer: Koehler
Year of discovery: 1779
Discovery aperture:

Observational

Summary description: vB, pL, R, f of D neb
Sub-type: E2

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4649 = M 60.  See NGC 4579 and NGC 4637.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4649

17.5" (4/25/87): very bright, fairly large, diffuse halo, slightly elongated ~E-W, very bright core with a bright substellar nucleus.  Forms a double system with NGC 4647 which is almost tangent to M60 barely off the NW edge. 

13": bright, very bright nucleus, slightly elongated ~E-W.