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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

===== 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.