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NGC4087

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:5:35.3
Declination: -26:31:20
Constellation: HYA
Visual Magnitude: 12.1

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1789
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, S, R, bM
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4087

18" (4/29/06): moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated, small bright core.  A mag 10 star 5' SSW has two faint companions (RST 2777); a close mag 13 star at 1.8" and a wider 12" companion.  I'm surprised that neither Herschels mentioned this interesting unequal triple.  Several brighter stars are scattered in the field.