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NGC4842

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:57:36.0
Declination: +27:29:35
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.0

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1865
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: vF, vS, h 1494 sp
Sub-type: E0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4842

17.5" (5/14/94): very faint, very small, very small bright core, possible stellar nucleus.  Forms a close pair with NGC 4839 just 2.6' W.  At 280x, this galaxy is resolved into a double system with an extremely faint, nearly stellar companion (NGC 4842B) 30" S of center.  The close double ·1699 = 8.6/8.6 at 1.6" separation lies 14.4' E.  Member of AGC 1656.