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NGC4873
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 12:59:32.9
Declination: +27:59:0
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 14.1
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS
Sub-type: S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4873. Seen by d'A; see NGC 4872. As with NGC 4871 (which see), this was
first measured by Bigourdan. Also see NGC 4864.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4873
18" (4/20/12): this member of the Coma cluster is located just 1.6' NNW of NGC 4874, within the halo of faint galaxies surrounding the giant elliptical. At 322x appeared faint, small, round, 18" diameter, very small brighter nucleus. Just slightly larger than nearby NGC 3871 and 3872.
17.5" (4/21/90): close companion of NGC 4874 in the core of AGC 1656. Very faint, very small, slightly elongated, very small bright core. Located 1.6' NNW of NGC 4874. Nearby galaxies include NGC 4871 1.7' SSW and NGC 4864/NGC 4867 pair 4.3' W.