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Old 07-01-2009, 04:03 AM
Enchilada
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Cool NGC 4071 : RA and Dec

NGC 4071 is placed at 12h 04.3 -67 deg 19'

I have attached a suitable finder chart (below) that might be helpful to you.

Also is some text that might be useful to you...

NGC 4071 / He2-75 / Sa2-82 / Wray 16-104/ PK298-4.1 / PNG 298-4.8. 0 (12043-6719) (U 450) is one of my favourite southern planetaries. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1838, some 1.9 deg NWW from 4th mag red variable Epsilon Muscae. Originally, he thought the object was a bright nebula, and had no inkling that it was a PNe. It was Karl Henize in his Southern Ha survey in 1961 who became first to discovered its real nature. Although few amateurs, until recently knew of NGC 4071's existence, mainly as it was classed as a nebula. This wonderful 12.9p mag elliptical planetary nebula is surprisingly brighter than expected, but unlike most PNe’s, its surface brightness is quite low, and this may account for some of the difficulty in seeing it using high magnification. This is similar to the problems with small apertures seeing the Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius. Those who are fortunate to own an H$ filter, it is likely that it will be of some use with NGC 4071. As the PNe is classed as a low-excitation object, considerably gains in contrast certainly will enhance the faint detail inside the nebulosity.

tornado33 also produced another good amateur images of this seemingly elusive object. I.e. http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp/ngc4071.jpg and this was in the thread ;
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...light=NGC+4071

Another fantastic image once posted here on IIS (posted on the 03rd September 2007, but now seemingly deleted). This was produced by Steve Quirk, and is one of the finest images I've ever seen of this particular object. This is now firmly placed in my own list of Top 10 images of southern objects.
http://my.hwy.com.au/~sjquirk/images/gstar/ngc4071.html

(However, you might want to look at it yourself for before looking at Steve Quick's really impressive image.)

This easily display the overall structure, as mimicked at;
http://www.blackskies.org/images/nsp...%20Fig5nsp.jpg

Further information can be also found at Doug Snyder's PNe Homepage at;

http://www.blackskies.org/nsp19.htm

Hope this helps...
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