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NGC4902

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:0:59.6
Declination: -14:30:50
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 10.9

Historic Information

Discoverer: Herschel W.
Year of discovery: 1785
Discovery aperture: 18.7

Observational

Summary description: pB, pL, iR, st nr
Sub-type: SBb

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4902

17.5" (5/17/90): moderately bright and large, round, weak even concentration to a bright core.  Forms the eastern vertex of an equilateral triangle with two mag 10 stars 2.0' NW and 2.2' WSW of center.  NGC 4887 is at the edge of the 220x field 10.4' SSW.

8" (5/21/82): fairly faint, moderately large, round, diffuse.