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NGC4886
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:0:4.6
Declination: +27:59:11
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1864
Discovery aperture: 11.0
Observational
Summary description: F, S, R, II 391 f 4s
Sub-type: E0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4886 = NGC 4882, which see.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4886
18" (4/20/12): this galaxy is the closest NGC galaxy (1.0' NW) to NGC 4889 in the core of the Coma cluster. At 282x it appeared faint or fairly faint, small, round, 15" diameter, contains a small bright nucleus.
17.5" (4/21/90): close companion to NGC 4889 in the central core of AGC 1656. Very faint, very small, slightly elongated. Located just 1.0' NW of the core of AGC 1656. Nearby galaxies surrounding NGC 4889 includes IC 4011 1.1' NNE, NGC 4883 3.4' NW and IC 4021 4' NE.
13" (4/29/84): very faint, very small, round. Close companion 1' NW of NGC 4889 in the central core of AGC 1656.