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NGC4310

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:22:26.4
Declination: +29:12:29
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: F, cL, lE, n of 2
Sub-type: SB0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4310 = NGC 4338, which see.  Also see NGC 4311 and NGC 4317.

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4310

17.5" (5/23/98): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.2'x0.6', weak concentration.  A wide pair of mag 12 stars [1.3' separation] lies 4' S.  The nearer star has a mag 14 companion at 24".

17.5" (4/25/98): fairly faint, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, 1.4'x0.7', broad concentration.  The trio of NGC 4278, NGC 4283 and NGC 4286 lies ~30' NW.  Observation affected by hazy skies.