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NGC4871
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:59:30.1
Declination: +27:57:23
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, stell N
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4871. Seen by d'A, but probably not measured; see NGC 4872. Bigourdan is
certainly the first to measure the position of this galaxy -- it is his "nova"
number 63, one of about a hundred new objects that he sent to Dreyer before
the NGC was published. Bigourdan actually published these before the NGC
appeared, but I suspect that Dreyer's catalogue was in press when Bigourdan's
lists appeared in "Comptes rendus" in November and December of 1887.
See also NGC 4864.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4871
18" (4/20/12): this close companion of NGC 4874 is located just of the west side of the halo, 1.3' between centers. At 322x it appeared faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, very small bright nucleus. One of the swarm of small galaxies hovering around NGC 4874.
17.5" (4/21/90): very faint, extremely small, round. Located 1.3' W of the center of NGC 4874 in the core of AGC 1656. A mag 12 star lies 1.2' S. Numerous galaxies are nearby including NGC 4873 1.8' NNE and NGC 4872 1.1' SE.
13" (4/29/84): very faint, very small, round, very close companion of NGC 4874 just 1' W of center.