NGC 4866

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Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Image Information for NGC 4866

DSS Acknowledgement , DSS Copyright Notice		DSS Image Generation: 1st Generation DSS Image
Image Center (2000): 12h 59m 27.2s; +14º 10' 17"		Image File Name: n4866.jpg
Image Size (arcminutes): 10' x 10'		Image Size (pixels): 353 x 353
Original NGC Catalogue Data for NGC 4866
General Catalogue Designation: 3342		William Herschel Designation: I 162
John Herschel Designation: 1498		Other Observers: ...
Right Ascension (Equinox 1860): 12h 52m 29s		Annual RA Precession (Equinox 1880): +2.99s
North Polar Declination (Equinox 1860): 75° 4.4'		Annual DEC Precession (Equinox 1880): +19.5"
Summary Description: *B, pL, mE 90°, sbMN, S inv**
Notes: †	Comments: …
Discovered by: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822)			Year of Discovery: 1787
Telescope Aperture (Inches): 18.7		Telescope Type: Reflector
Understanding the 'Summary Description': Summary Description Abbreviations List
Contemporary/Current Data for NGC 4866
Right Ascension (2000): 12h 59m 27.2s		Declination (2000): +14º 10' 17"
Object Type: Galaxy		Object Classification: Sa III
Constellation: Virgo		Position Angle: 87 °
Visual Magnitude: 10.6		Surface Brightness: 12.8
Blue Magnitude: 11.5		Object Size: 6.3'X1.3'
Also Cataloged As:	UGC 8102, MCG+02-33-045, CGCG 071.092, H I-162, h 1498, GC 3342, PGC 44600
Catalogue Notes: ---------------
Book / Chart References for NGC 4866
Luginbuhl & Skiff (Page): 273		Burnham's (Volume : Page): ------
Uranometria 2000: 194		Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas: C-29,C-47,D-33
Microsky: 497		GSC Small Region Number: 889
POSS Blue Plate #: 41		POSS Red Plate #: 41
Database Update Level: 2 (Complete)
Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 4866
NGC 4866 = UGC 08102 = MCG +02-33-045 = CGCG 071-092 = PGC 44600 12 59 27.1 +14 10 16 V = 11.2; Size 6.3x1.3; SB = 13.4; PA = 87d 17.5": fairly bright, large, edge-on 5:1 E-W, 5.0'x1.0', prominent core, stellar nucleus. A mag 13 star is embedded on the W side 0.8' WNW of center. The core appears slightly offset towards the star or the extension W of the core may appear less prominent due to the glare. - by Steve Gottlieb
Data Sources Used to research NGC 4866
[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) [CGCG] Catalog of Galaxies & Clusters of Galaxies (Zwicky - 1968) [HC-PPL] NGC/IC Accurate Positions List Database (Corwin - 1996 thru 2006) [SG-NGCO] NGC/IC Observations Database (Gottlieb - 1998 thru 2006) [RE-AZDB] The Arizona Database®, V15.5 (Erdmann - 1987 thru 2006) [PGC] Principle Galaxy Catalog (Paturel et al. - 1989, 2003) [MCG] Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al - 1962 thru 1968) [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.