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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

===== 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

===== 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.