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NGC4669
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:44:46.7
Declination: +54:52:34
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, E (? r)
Sub-type: Sb
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4669. This galaxy figures in the lack of an NGC entry for UGC 7905. See
that story in the "notngc" files.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4669
24" (5/30/16): fairly faint, moderately large, very elongated 7:2 N-S, 1.0'x0.3', small brighter core. Mag 9.7 HD 238159 is 3.0' ENE.
UGC 7905 = VV 708, located 8' WNW of NGC 4669, is a disturbed, interacting system with tidal tails extending from both galaxies. The pair is oriented SSW to NNE with centers separated by 35". At 225x, the southwest member (Mrk 220) appeared fairly faint, small, high surface brightness, roundish, 18" diameter. The northeast component (Mrk 221) appeared faint, fairly small, 18", low surface brightness. Only the central region was seen and I missed the tidal tail extending to the north and east. This pair was discovered by Dreyer, but didn't receive an NGC designation due to a misidentification.
18" (6/28/03): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 N-S, 0.7'x0.35', fairly low nearly even surface brightness. Located 3.0' W of mag 9.8 SAO 28505 in a group (LGG 300) of 6 NGC galaxies. NGC 4675 lies 10.5' SE and NGC 4646 is 16' W.