M106

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6106. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M106 is a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici just over a degree and a half south of the fifth-magnitude star 3 Canum Venaticorum. At eighth magnitude it is fairly easily within reach of small telescopes. Mechain discovered it in 1781 and mentioned it in the same letter to Bernoulli as his discovery of the objects now known as M105 and M107. In 1947 it was identified as NGC 4258 by Helen Sawyer Hogg,...

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