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NGC4896
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 13:0:30.9
Declination: +28:20:47
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.9
Historic Information
Discoverer: Bigourdan
Year of discovery: 1885
Discovery aperture: 12.4
Observational
Summary description: vF, vS, R, mbM
Sub-type: E-S0
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 4896 = NGC 4895. Bigourdan's measurement, when reduced with respect to
his nominal comparison star (HD 112886), falls within 2.5 arcsec of NGC 4895.
However, the galaxy we usually take for this NGC number is a different one
about nine arcminutes to the northeast. Curiously, Bigourdan gives a position
in the Comptes rendus list that is 6.5 arcmin away from the galaxy; this is
the position that appears in the NGC. I have not been able to recover the
source of this position, but it must be due to the use of an incorrect
position for his comparison star (or he simply misidentified that star).
Whatever happened, NGC 4896 is identical to NGC 4895.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 4896
18" (6/4/05): faint, small, round, 30" diameter. Weak, even concentration to a very faint stellar nucleus. Located just north of the core of AGC 1656 with CGCG 160-089 3.0' ESE and MCG +05-31-095 4.8' ENE.