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NGC4668

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:45:31.8
Declination: -0:32:10
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1787
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, iF
Sub-type: SBcd

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4668

17.5" (2/28/87): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S.  Forms a pair with NGC 4666 7.4' NW.  A triple star is 3.0' due west consisting of mag 11.5/13/13.5 stars at 20" separation between the closer pairs.