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NGC4679

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:47:30.0
Declination: -39:34:16
Constellation: CEN
Visual Magnitude: 12.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1835
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: eeF, pL, R
Sub-type: SBc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4679

18" (3/28/09): at 175x appeared very faint, moderately large, elongated 3:2 N-S, 1.0'x0.7', low surface brightness.  Located 5.5' NNE of mag 8.8 HD 111142 and 21' NW of mag 8.1 HD 111373. A distinctive group of stars including 3 in a string is in the field to the NW. This galaxy resides 1.8 degrees north of NGC 4696 on the north end of AGC 3526.