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NGC4931

Basic Information

Location and Magnitude

Right Ascension: 13:3:1.1
Declination: +28:1:55
Constellation: COM
Visual Magnitude: 13.5

Historic Information

Discoverer: d'Arrest
Year of discovery: 1863
Discovery aperture: 11.0

Observational

Summary description: F, S
Sub-type: S0

Steve's Notes

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NGC 4931

17.5" (5/19/01): fairly faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 ~E-W, 0.5'x0.15'.  Contains a small bright core that occasionally appears stellar.  A mag 13.5 star lies 1.6' NE.  Situated nearly at the midpoint of NGC 4927 3.7' WNW and NGC 4934 3.4' E within AGC 1656.