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NGC4169
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:12:18.7
Declination: +29:10:46
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7
Observational
Summary description: F, S, 1st of 4
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4169. See NGC 4170.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4169
18" (6/17/06): brightest member of HCG 61 = "The Box". Appears moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, 1.2'x0.7'. Well concentrated with a 25" bright core that increases to the center.
13.1" (4/12/86): brightest in a small group of four galaxies = HCG 61. Moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated NNW-SSE, very small bright core. Forms the west vertex of a nearly perfect rectangle with NGC 4173 1.7' NNE, NGC 4174 2.5' SE and NGC 4175 2.9' ESE.