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NGC4031

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 12:0:31.3
Declination: +31:56:48
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information


Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational


Summary description: eF, vS, * 17 v nr south
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4031 17.5" (2/24/90): very faint, fairly small, elongated SSW-NNE. A mag 15.5 star is at the SW end and a second mag 15 star is 0.7' N of center.