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NGC4969

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:7:2.4
Declination: +13:38:12
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 13.9

Historic Information


Discoverer: Swift E.
Year of discovery: 1887
Discovery aperture: 16.0

Observational


Summary description: eeF, S, R, v diffic
Sub-type: E-S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 4969 is a double galaxy found by Edward Swift. It is not mentioned as a double in the description that Lewis Swift gives in his sixth list, so it is likely that Edward saw it simply as a faint nebula. The western component is slightly brighter, but the Swifts' position is bad, so we really can't say which object to put the NGC on. Since the two are overlapping, I've assumed that both contributed to the visual appearance, and have adopted the mean position as that for the NGC object. See NGC 4740 for more about other nebulae that Edward Swift found on the night of 27 April 1887, and how this one fits in.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4969 18" (5/16/09): faint, small, round, 22" diameter, fairly low evey surface brightness. A mag 15.5 star is just off the north edge.