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NGC4539

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:34:34.6
Declination: +18:12:10
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, pmE
Sub-type: SBa

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4539

17.5" (4/13/02): fairly faint but fairly large, elongated 5:2 E-W, 2.4'x0.9'.  Fairly uniform low surface brightness but bulges slightly at the core.  Two mag 14 stars are 1.5' SE of center.  Located 13' SW of the beautiful double 24 Comae (5.0/6.6 at 20").