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NGC4091

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:5:40.2
Declination: +20:33:23
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.5

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: vF, S, R, f of 2
Sub-type: Sbc

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4091

17.5" (5/14/88): faint, very small, elongated SW-NE.  A mag 13.5 star is 1.0' S.  Forms a very close pair with NGC 4089 37" W of center and the second of six in the field within the NGC 4065 cluster.