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NGC4749

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:51:12.2
Declination: +71:38:6
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1793
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: vF, cL, E 135° ±
Sub-type: Sb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4749

18" (6/28/03): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 NNW-SSE, 0.8'x0.3', brighter core.  A distinctive "kite" asterism of mag 12-13 stars is close NW.  Four mag 8-9 stars are in the 20' field around the periphery including mag 7.9 SAO 7686 at 8.5' ESE.