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NGC4954

 

Basic Information


Location and Magnitude


Right Ascension: 13:2:19.3
Declination: +75:24:17
Constellation: DRA
Visual Magnitude: 13.2

Historic Information


Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3

Observational


Summary description: vF, S, R, vgbM
Sub-type: S0

Corwin's Notes

===== NGC 4954 = NGC 4972, which see.

Steve's Notes

===== NGC 4954 18" (6/28/03): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 SW-NE, 0.7'x0.5', fairly sharp concentration with a small bright core. A distinctive group of 4 mag 12-13 stars is close west with three of the stars nearly collinear and equally spaced. Located 14' ESE of mag 6.0 SAO 7714.