NGC 4569

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Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Image Information for NGC 4569

DSS Acknowledgement , DSS Copyright Notice		DSS Image Generation: 1st Generation DSS Image
Image Center (2000): 12h 36m 49.9s; +13º 09' 45"		Image File Name: n4569.jpg
Image Size (arcminutes): 10' x 10'		Image Size (pixels): 353 x 353
Original NGC Catalogue Data for NGC 4569
General Catalogue Designation: 3111		William Herschel Designation: ...
John Herschel Designation: ...		Other Observers: M 90
Right Ascension (Equinox 1860): 12h 29m 46s		Annual RA Precession (Equinox 1880): +3.03s
North Polar Declination (Equinox 1860): 76° 3.9'		Annual DEC Precession (Equinox 1880): +19.9"
Summary Description: pL, bNM
Notes: …	Comments: …
Discovered by: Charles Messier (1730 - 1817)			Year of Discovery: 1781
Telescope Aperture (Inches): 3.3		Telescope Type: Refractor
Understanding the 'Summary Description': Summary Description Abbreviations List
Contemporary/Current Data for NGC 4569
Right Ascension (2000): 12h 36m 49.9s		Declination (2000): +13º 09' 45"
Object Type: Galaxy		Object Classification: Sb
Constellation: Virgo		Position Angle: 23 °
Visual Magnitude: 9.6		Surface Brightness: 13.5
Blue Magnitude: 10.3		Object Size: 9.5'X4.4'
Also Cataloged As:	M90, UGC 7786, MCG+02-32-155, ARP 76, CGCG 070.192, GC 3111, VCC 1690, PGC 42089
Catalogue Notes:
Book / Chart References for NGC 4569
Luginbuhl & Skiff (Page): 267		Burnham's (Volume : Page): 3:2097
Uranometria 2000: 194		Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas: C-29,C-30,C-47,C-48,D-33,E-09
Microsky: 496		GSC Small Region Number: 881
POSS Blue Plate #: 1563		POSS Red Plate #: 1563
Database Update Level: 2 (Complete)
Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 4569
NGC 4569 = M90 = U07786 = MCG +02-32-155 = CGCG 070-192 = Arp 76 = PGC 42089 12 36 49.9 +13 09 44 V = 9.5; Size 9.5x4.4; SB = 13.4; PA = 23d 17.5": bright, large, very elongated 3:1 SSW-NNE, sharp concentration as suddenly increases to a bright stellar nucleus (possibly a superimposed star), fairly even surface brightness to halo. IC 3583 lies 6' NNW. - by Steve Gottlieb
Data Sources Used to research NGC 4569
[NGC] New General Catalogue / [IC] Index Catalogue (Dreyer - 1888, 1895, 1908) [OHCDSO] Observing Handbook and Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (Luginbuhl & Skiff - 1990) [RE-NGCDDB] NGC Discoverer's Database (Erdmann 1990 - 2006) [UGC] Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies (Nilson - 1973) [ARP] Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (H. Arp) [CGCG] Catalog of Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies (Zwicky - 1968) [MCG] Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al - 1962 thru 1968) [RE-AZDB] The Arizona Database®, V15.5 (Erdmann - 1987 thru 2006) [HC-PPL] NGC/IC Accurate Positions List Database (Corwin - 1996 thru 2006) [SG-NGCO] NGC/IC Observations Database (Gottlieb - 1998 thru 2006) [DSS] Digitized Sky Survey - 1st (102 CD-ROM) and 2nd (Web Site) Generation (STScI - 1994) [NED] NASA's Extragalactic Database (NED) located at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
Additional Notes
• 1st generation images were generated from the 102 CD-ROM version of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) • 2nd generation images were generated at the DSS web site located at http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dsswin • Luginbuhl & Skiff page numbers are from 'Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects' by Christian B. Luginbuhl and Brian A. Skiff, produced by Cambridge University Press • Burnham's refers to 'Burnham's Celestial Handbook' in three volumes produced by Dover Publications, Inc. • Uranometria 2000 chart numbers are for those printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Lovi, and are not for the most recent printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Remaklus in which the charts were re-numbered, all of which were and/or are produced by Willmann-Bell, Inc. • The Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas is by D. Herald and P. Bobroff of Canberra, Australia and is produced by HB2000 Publications • Microsky® is the microfiche rendition of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) produced by Deen Publications (P.O. Box 867088; Plano Texas 75086) • POSS refers to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey produced by The National Geographic Society in conjunction with The California Institute of Technology • All DSS image annotation was performed by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr., and is ©Copyright 1996 through 2008 by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. - All rights reserved • All product names, trademarks, and copyrights are the property of their respective owners • Contemporary/Current Data for this object was hand collected and entered from the data sources listed in the "Data Sources Used" section of this table above.- Robert E. Erdmann, Jr.