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NGC4746

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:51:55.2
Declination: +12:4:59
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 12.6

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1830
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational

Summary description: pB, mE, r
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4746

17.5" (3/28/92): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, weak concentration with no well-defined nucleus.  A mag 11 star lies 3.5' WSW and a mag 13 star is 2.3' N of center.