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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

===== 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.