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NGC4918

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:1:50.7
Declination: -4:30:2
Constellation: VIR
Visual Magnitude: 14.4

Historic Information

Discoverer: Leavenworth
Year of discovery: 1886
Discovery aperture: 26.3

Observational

Summary description: eF, eS, R, bMN, h 1513 sp 4'
Sub-type: S0-a

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4918

18" (6/4/05): extremely faint, small, elongated 3:2?  Requires averted and only glimpsed intermittently.  A mag 10.8 star 1.8' NNW detracts from viewing.  Located 6' NE of NGC 4915.