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NGC4814

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:55:21.8
Declination: +58:20:40
Constellation: UMA
Visual Magnitude: 12.2

Historic Information

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

Observational

Summary description: B, pS, vlE, vgbM
Sub-type: Sb/P

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4814

17.5" (5/19/01): moderately bright, moderately large, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, 1.6'x1.2'.  Increases to a brighter core and quasi-stellar nucleus.  A pretty 19" pair of mag 9/10 stars (oriented E-W) lies 11' S.  A third mag 9.5 star is just 2' following the closer pair.