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NGC4849

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:58:12.7
Declination: +26:23:47
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 12.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1867
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: pB, R, bM
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

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NGC 4849 = IC 3935, which see.  Briefly, d'Arrest's position is about four
arcminutes out, so the galaxy was also "discovered" by Spitaler and Javelle.  
Also see IC 838, first noticed by Spitaler, and later frequently called "NGC
4849A".

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4849

17.5" (5/14/94): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated, weak even concentration down to a brighter core.  A faint double star is 7' N with components mag 12.3 and 13.6 at 16".  Forms a close pair with IC 838 1.9' NNE (not seen).  Outlying member of AGC 1656.