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NGC4856

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 12:59:21.1
Declination: -15:2:32
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: B, R, psmbM, * 13 np
Sub-type: SB0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4856

17.5" (5/17/90): bright, fairly large, dominated by a very bright core, fairly large faint halo elongated 3:1 SSW-NNE.  A mag 13 star is superimposed on the halo just east of the core 0.4' from center.

8" (5/21/82): fairly bright, bright core, slightly elongated.  A mag 7.5 is in the field 20' W.