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NGC4149
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:10:32.8
Declination: +58:18:14
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, S, E
Sub-type: S?
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4149 = NGC 4154. The two NGC numbers are due to WH having swept this
galaxy up twice in succesive years, 1789 and 1790. JH has only one
observation of it with no description which he put on his father's 1789
observation. Dreyer noted that Bigourdan did not find NGC 4154 (the 1790
observation), but WH's position for this is actually closer to the galaxy than
his position for N4149 which Bigourdan did observe.
In any event, there is no doubt that the two numbers apply to the same galaxy.
Steve Gottlieb (who called my attention to this) and Wolfgang Steinicke were
apparently the first to notice the identity. Though I have the correct
position for each object, they are just far enough apart in my working table
(separated by many good positions for NGC 4151) that I did not see the
identity. Good catch, guys!
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4149
17.5" (5/13/88): fairly faint, small, thin edge-on WNW-ESE, weak concentration. This is a pretty system.