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NGC4391

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:25:18.9
Declination: +64:56:1
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 12.7

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1790
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: cF, S, R, sbM, *** sp
Sub-type: E-S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4391

17.5" (4/15/93): fairly faint, small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus.  A fairly bright triple star is 2' WSW consisting of three mag 10.5-12 stars with separations 34", 50" and 68".  NGC 4441 lies 14' SE.