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NGC4970

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:7:33.6
Declination: -24:0:32
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, pL, iF
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4970 = IC 4196, which see.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4970

17.5" (4/13/96): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.0'x0.5'.  Well concentrated with a small, bright, rounder core.  NGC 4968 lies 20' NNW and IC 4197 14' NNE (unfortunately did not look for).